Flooding Iraq pneumonia baffles U.S.
Army medical experts have struggled to explain why some 100 U.S. soldiers, who usually served in Iraq, pneumonia awarded by March. The army has biological weapons and SARS as possible reasons for the flood that killed two soldiers and assume that 13 other critically ill. A team of medical researchers in Iraq should fall within a few hours to try to find a connection between the cases. But soldiers say pneumonia remains common - including the young - even if the troops are encouraged, and to take steps to stay healthy.The disease began to attract public attention in the United States, especially after the two deaths, correspondents say. Neusch mother of Josh, 20, died last month, said the UKs Sunday Telegraph that he believed his son had run into something deadly while
clearing rubble in one of the palaces of Saddam Hussein. Colonel Robert DeFraites of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army said officials were particularly concerned about the two deaths and 13 cases in which the troops in question should be put on a respirator.But they did not believe in a cause disaster, he said. Theres been no positive results for anthrax or smallpox or other biological weapons ... Im close enough to exclude it, said Colonel DeFraites a press conference. By examples from the hospital room also no evidence of having killed the pneumonia as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) Hundreds of people - mainly in China and Hong Kong - this year. faraway cases statistically Colonel DeFraites said that the rate of infection and even death associated
troops in Iraq would not be considered unusual, given the fact that Pneumonia is common and a great mass of American troops in the region.Worldwide, the American army is 400-500 of its employees to pneumonia each year and an average of three deaths per year from this disease. Two thirds of the more serious recent cases occurred in Iraq, lung inflammation, but also the troops in Qatar and Uzbekistan affected. The 15
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