Saturday, February 9, 2008

TROOPS FROM IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN BRING BACK DEADLY BACTERIA

New Bacterial Infection Linked to Military

Report: Troops Transmitted Mysterious Bacteria That Has Killed 7 And Affected Military And Civilians Alike

By JOHN HENDREN
Feb. 8, 2008—

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Germs/story?id=4233448&page=1

Troops arriving home from Iraq and Afghanistan have been carrying a mysterious, deadly bacteria, according to a new magazine report.

Doctors have linked the bacterium acinetobacter baumannii to at least seven deaths, as well as to loss of limbs and other severe ailments, according to the report, which found the bacterium has spread quickly since the war in Afghanistan began in the fall of 2001


Acinetobacter baumannii has been found in military hospitals in Germany, the Washington, D.C., area and Texas -- the primary destinations of wounded service members from the two war zones. And it has now spread to civilians, according to the report.


"The outbreak began traveling with patients or nonpatients from Iraq all the way back to Walter Reed," said Dr. Rox Anderson at Harvard Medical School.


Dr. Timothy Endy, a retired Army colonel now teaching infectious disease medicine at the Upstate Medical University of the State University of New York, said the outbreak might be the largest of its kind to spread through hospitals in history.

Doctors quoted in the magazine article agreed. "Of the infectious disease problems that come out of the conflict, it is the most important complication we've seen," Dr. Glenn Wortmann, acting chief of infectious disease at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, said in the February issue of Proceedings, published by the U.S. Naval Institute, a professional organization focused on naval issues.


The report was released to subscribers of the magazine this week.

4 comments:

Marcie Hascall Clark said...

Hey Bill
Good to find your blog.
This is a story that has not yet really made it to the MSM.
The ABC story is a cut and paste from a real story by Chas Henry for a Naval publication. This story and his television spots about Acinetobacter baumannii can be found at his site www.chashenry.com.
These Superbug strains of Acinetobacter baumannii from the military evacuation route from Iraq and Afghanistan are the result of Pure Negligence.Our troops were sent into war underfunded, undermanned, and completely unprepared to deal with the results.Our field hospitals were never prepared to deal with the onslaught of casualties. Equipment was filthy, doctors and staff were overworked, the most basic of supplies were not available.The strains of Acinetobacter baumannii from the military originated in Europe, Germany, where much of the medical equipment was forwarded to Iraq. They were fast tracked to nearly complete drug resistance by the misuse of antibiotics by doctors trying desperately to save lives and limbs.This is just another big screw up by our government. It wasn't even intentional.Rather than deal with it and contain it, they put more effort into covering it up.
Steve Silbermans story at

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/enemy.html

is extremely well documented and tells the whole story up to the time he wrote it last year.Since that time it has been allowed to spread like wildfire while no one, including ABC would talk about it.Hundreds, probably thousands, of lives have been lost this bacteria.Read Steves story, check out my site

www.iraqinfections.org,

and stay out of the hospital wherever you are.

Bill Corcoran said...

Hi Marcie: Glad you found my blog. I'm a veteran of the Korean War and very interested in this topic.

I would appreciate it if you would send me any information you have at Bill Corcoran, corkcol@aol.com.

I have devoted my blog to reporting on events surrounding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and I think your project would be an ideal way for me to carry a message to people who have no idea about this disease.

Again, thanks for writing and keep me posted.

Bill Corcoran, editor and host of CORKSPHERE.

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