The total Birth in the majority of the Gulf Coast areas that are hit by Hurricane Katrina plunged in the 12 months following the deadly storm, as per the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As per the report from CDC′s National Center for Health Statistics, “The Effect of Hurricane Katrina: Births in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region, Before and After the Storm,” examines birth certificates for the 12 months earlier to Katrina and the 12 months after the storm (Aug. 29, 2004 to Aug. 28, 2006). The data cover residents within the 91 Federal Emergency Management Agency- designated counties and parishes of Alabama, Louisiana along with Mississippi.

Unique detailed data are presented in an interactive map for 14 selected FEMA-designated coastal counties and parishes within a 100 mile radius of the storm’s path (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/data/map/HurricaneMap.htm).

Key result include:

. The total number of births in the 14 counties and parishes has reduced to 19 percent in the year after Katrina compared with the preceding year. The births has been reduced to 30 percent in the chosen parishes, Louisiana furthermore 13 percent for the selected counties in Mississippi but the birth in Alabama has increased to 6 percent.

. The total number of births to non-Hispanic black women in the elected parishes of Louisiana fell to a large extent (51 percent) after the storm. Births were also downhill for non-Hispanic white (14 percent), Hispanic (21 percent) also Asian/Pacific Islander (34 percent) women.

. In Orleans Parish, the central parish of New Orleans, the proportion of birth rate to non-Hispanic black women chops down from 78 percent of total births prior to the storm to 60 percent in the year after the hit by Katrina.

. The fraction of births to teens for these 14 selected counties as well as the parishes were unaffected subsequent to the storm, not including the selected parishes in Louisiana, where they deduced to 11 percent.

. Cesarean deliveries for the 14 chosen counties and parishes rose by 10 percent in the Alabama as well as Mississippi counties also 6 percent in the Louisiana parishes.