FOCUS: 18 Foreign Soldiers In Iraq Suffer From Dangerous Pulmonary Disease

[Hissyspit]

Bulgarian News Source:

18 Soldiers from Foreign Contingents in Iraq Suffer from Dangerous Pulmonary Disease

26 February 2005 | 20:31 | FOCUS News Agency

Baghdad. Eighteen soldiers from the US-led coalitional forces in Iraq have fallen ill of a dangerous pulmonary disease. No Bulgarian soldiers have been affected yet, said the leadership of the Military Medical Academy for Nova Television. Measures are being undertaken to protect the Bulgarian soldiers. The disease is known as pulmonary eosinophilic syndrome. It affects the lungs and is transmitted by sand.

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[truthisfreedom]

1. transmitted by sand.

argh.

[indepat]

2. Hopefully our soldiers stationed there over the next 25 or so years will

be immune.

[omulcol]

3. Also hope they're immune from

Depleted Uranium too. There's enough of that in the sand now - until it breaks down in 4.5 billion years from now !

[MyDogSpot]

4. not to mention, sand flea bites

whose effect can lie dormant for weeks before manifesting itself.