Anthrax jabs blamed for baby deaths

[JoFerret]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-3807201,00.html

Press Association
Monday March 1, 2004 12:53 PM


<<Soldiers who served in Iraq and their partners have expressed fears for the health of their unborn babies after other parents blamed anthrax vaccinations for a cluster of infant deaths.

The death toll of babies born in the small unit at 33 Field Hospital in Gosport, Hampshire, has provoked calls for a public inquiry into the Government's vaccination programme.

Since the war in Iraq last year, pregnancies at the base have ended in two miscarriages, three premature births, one still-birth and a forced termination.

In each of the seven cases, at least one of the parents had received the anthrax vaccination.>>
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[mac2]

1. Spread fear even in Britain.....

Which Union is Britian part of now? Or has it joined at all? The EU? They are still using the pound that is very strong. It is stronger than the EU or the dollars.

Because...we're paying for the wars...aren't we?

Give us back all that money from CEO plundering of our corporations and defence contracts... Why aren't we demanding that?

[rocktivity]

2. SHAME ON YOU GUYS!

I am absolutely appalled! I looked the other way when you killed that rhincerous herd in Africa, and this is the thanks I get? Well, you can forget about me giving your band coverage on my web site ever again!

:headbang:
rocknation

[donsu]

3. wonder what the stats are for our female troops?

any talk about this among our military?

[JoFerret]

4. Some US and more UK info here

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/content_objectid=14000046_method=full_siteid=106694_headline=-SCANDAL-OF-THE-ANTHRAX-BABIES-name_page.html

Health snapshot of returning soldiers: 11,000 have sought treatment

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001867435_vetills28m.html

<<A new federal report offers a statistical snapshot of the health of U.S. veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, indicating more than 11,000 have sought treatment for conditions that range from hypertension to deafness to mental disorders.

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The biggest numbers of health problems have involved muscle, skeletal or digestive problems.

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But 1.6 percent of those who have sought treatment — 1,598 veterans — have been treated for mental disorders that included substance abuse, post-traumatic stress syndrome and psychoses.

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Some veterans returning from the 1991 war reported joint pain, fatigue, memory and sleep symptoms that collectively came to be known as Gulf War syndrome.

Concerns about the fate of these veterans heightened after the Pentagon disclosed that 145,000 troops were inadvertently exposed to low levels of sarin nerve gas released by the detonation of an Iraq ammunition dump. And the U.S. government has spent more than $200 million studying the syndrome.

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But during these new conflicts, physicians say there could be more incidents of post-traumatic stress syndrome. The first Gulf War ended after less than a week of major ground fighting, while the present Iraq occupation has involved long, stressful months of battling insurgents.

"This is a whole different situation. Really, almost everywhere is a combat zone, and there are so many improvised explosive devices," said Dr. Stephen Hunt, medical director for the VA's Deployment Health Clinic in Seattle and at American Lake in Pierce County. Hunt says rates of post-traumatic stress syndrome will likely be higher than in the Gulf War.

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Steve Robinson, executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, said the soldiers now in Iraq also may face risks from depleted uranium shells from U.S. munitions, as well as vaccines they received to ward off disease and anthrax attacks.
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