Re: New Bacterial Infection Linked to Military

[Guest guest]

The headline is a little misleading. A. baumannii is not some new thing that's just been discovered, nor is it entirely mysterious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinetobacter_baumannii (reliable info).Lee <jackalope_lepus@...> wrote: New Bacterial Infection Linked to MilitaryReport: Troops Transmitted Mysterious Bacteria That Has Killed 7 AndAffected Military And Civilians Alike By JOHN HENDREN Feb. 8, 2008Troops arriving home from Iraq and

Afghanistan have been carrying amysterious, deadly bacteria, according to a new magazine report.Doctors have linked the bacterium acinetobacter baumannii to at leastseven deaths, as well as to loss of limbs and other severe ailments,according to the report, which found the bacterium has spread quicklysince the war in Afghanistan began in the fall of 2001Acinetobacter baumannii has been found in military hospitals inGermany, the Washington, D.C., area and Texas -- the primarydestinations of wounded service members from the two war zones. And ithas now spread to civilians, according to the report."The outbreak began traveling with patients or nonpatients from Iraqall the way back to Walter ," said Dr. Rox at HarvardMedical School.Dr. Endy, a retired Army colonel now teaching infectiousdisease medicine at the Upstate Medical University of the StateUniversity of New York, said the

outbreak might be the largest of itskind to spread through hospitals in history.Doctors quoted in the magazine article agreed. "Of the infectiousdisease problems that come out of the conflict, it is the mostimportant complication we've seen," Dr. Glenn Wortmann, acting chiefof infectious disease at Walter Army Medical Center, said in theFebruary 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. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Germs/story?id=4233448 & page=1 . Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt

[Guest guest]

Hi , So you mean that it is not a story? I guess that a

reporter was trying too hard to get a story. It is not like the

military does not have stories that could be written about it.

> The headline is a little misleading. A. baumannii is not some new

thing that's just been discovered, nor is it entirely mysterious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinetobacter_baumannii (reliable info).

[Guest guest]

The important thing here is that people not forget about these not-often-mentioned but rather nasty bugs.Lee <jackalope_lepus@...> wrote: Hi , So you mean that it is not a story? I guess that areporter was trying too hard to get a story. It is not like themilitary does not have stories that could be written about it.> The headline is a little misleading. A. baumannii is not some

newthing that's just been discovered, nor is it entirely mysterious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinetobacter_baumannii (reliable info). . Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt