Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Spawn New Disease

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/19/iraq-afghanistan-wars-spawn-new-disease/

DENVER – Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of a new disease researchers say they have named Iraq-Afghanistan War lung injury.


Soldiers from Fort Campbell's 86th Combat Support Hospital division treat a patient during a mock exercise while members of the Vanderbilt Trauma Divison observe. Army hospital personnel will be honing their skills at Vanderbilt in a move designed to sustain the medical proficiency of support hospital soldiers. Photo by Anne Rayner
Dr. Anthony Szema of Stony Brook University Medical Center and Dr. Cecile S. Rose of National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado in Denver are leading a session at the American Thoracic Society in Denver that describes the ailment among soldiers deployed to these countries in the Middle East and Asia.

“Not only do soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan suffer serious respiratory problems at a rate seven times that of soldiers deployed elsewhere, but the respiratory issues they present with show a unique pattern of fixed obstruction in half of cases, while most of the rest are clinically reversible new-onset asthma, in addition to the rare interstitial lung disease called non-specific interstitial pneumonitis associated with inhalation of titanium and iron,” the researchers say.

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans face numerous respiratory threats including: dust from the sand; smoke from burn pits; aerosolized metals and chemicals from bombs; blast overpressure or shock waves to the lung; outdoor aeroallergens such as date pollen, indoor aeroallergens such as mold aspergillus, vehicle exhaust and tobacco smoke, Rose says

[Mnemosyne]

1. K&R for more visibility. Thanks w8lady! n/t

[mod mom]

2. lets get this on the greatest page for more visibility. recd

[w8liftinglady]

3. My son even said depleted uranium didn't scare him as much as the "Cloud of Crud"

there is a lot of talk among the troops during deployment. Not much studying of them after deployment,unfortunately....no money to be made from that,ya know.

[robdogbucky]

5. Um, what does he think was in those clouds of crud?

DU

It has been used over there since we first invaded, in all 3 countries we presently have operations in.

There were soldiers that sat in tanks for their TOD over there, on boxes of DU ammo shells.

Sheesh.

Check the worldwide radiation proliferation of specific particles emanating only from DU that began being detected around the globe by radiation experts that acdutally care, after we first started over there.

Don't get me started, it's bad and has been going on for a long time.



"May the lights in the land of plenty

Shine on the truth one day."

Leonard Cohen


rdb

[w8liftinglady]

7. I know. Don't get ME started on Burn Pits in Iraq

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6844944.html


CAMP TAJI, Iraq — One night in mid-January, a shift in the wind sent a sudden flurry of white flakes into a detainee internment facility guarded by soldiers from Houston's 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
The Texas Army National Guard troops weren't witnessing a rare Baghdad snowfall. The flakes drifting from the pitch-dark sky were ash and bits of charred trash belched from an open-air burn pit about 100 yards from the outer walls of the internment facility.

Operated by Houston-based contractor KBR, the pit consumes 120 tons of garbage a day here at Camp Taji, a U.S. military base north of Baghdad. On calm days, noxious smoke billows upward and dissipates into a smog-like haze. When the wind blows, the acrid-smelling fumes pour into towers and yards where about 800 Texas troops from the 72nd keep watch.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6844944.html#ixzz1NZXM9gzu

[Forkboy]

4. K&R

[robdogbucky]

6. The Contamination of Iraq with Depleted Uranium Causes Health Concerns

Hundreds of tons of Depleted Uranium (DU) were used during the invasion of Iraq. The US forces have forbid any kind of (DU) related exploration programs or research. They have also covered up and denied DU’s damaging health effects, and refused to release information on the amounts, types and locations of these weapons within Iraq. As a consequence, thousands of Iraqi children and their families are suffering from different low level radiation (LLR) related diseases such as congenital malformations, malignancies, congenital heart diseases, chromosomal aberration and multiple malformations. Women in the contaminated areas suffered high rates of miscarriages and sterility

Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons are manufactured from radioactive waste generated during the enrichment process of natural uranium as part of the nuclear fuel cycle.

American and British armed forces fired DU bullets and projectiles for the first time against the human population and environment in Iraq during the Gulf War, 1991. When DU munitions hit the target, they ignite prophetically and generate heat that reaches a temperature of 3000-6000. This heat causes a sublimation of DU and other metals to form a gas or aerosol that is considered as (nano- particles). The nano particles cross the lung blood barrier and gain entrance to the cells and create free radicals. Some effects that the people are facing are, immune and hormonal systems damage, distribution of thyroid function and tetrogenic toxicity where soluble DU oxides crosses the placenta to the fetus, as a result damages might range from behavioral problems to mental retardation and congenital malformations.

The Minister of Environment under the occupation government finally admitted in 2007 the existence of more than 350 highly contaminated DU site, along with the existence of high rates of cancer in Iraq due to the use of DU weapons.

http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2010/10/22/the-contamination-of-iraq-with-depleted-uranium-causes-health-concerns/

[mod mom]

8. k&r

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Not to amnesia about getting into unwinnable and unecessary wars.

[leftstreet]

10. K&R

:-(