Re: Something in the air may cause lung damage in troops

[Guest guest]

Well, they are serving in a desert region and constantly inhaling microparticles of silica and other components of sand. This alone would cause some damage. I wonder how long it will take the military to more or less pooh-pooh the whole thing so that the VA doesn't get "stuck" with these vets. We must be the change we wish to see in the world. Mohandas K. GandhiFrom: rumjal <rumjal@...>Flu Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 2:10 AMSubject: [Flu] Something in the air may cause lung damage in troops

Something in the air may cause lung damage in troops

Breathing problems in soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan are traced to deposits in tiny air passages of the lungs

By Seppa. Web edition : Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Some soldiers serving in the Middle East who develop difficulty breathing — but whose chest X-rays show nothing out of the ordinary — have constrictive bronchiolitis, a kind of lung damage virtually unknown in young adults, a study shows.

Reporting in the July 21 New England Journal of Medicine...

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/332603/title/Something_in_the_air_may_cause_lung_damage_in_troops

[Guest guest]

Yes, gas warfare is quite advanced these days, but it is cheaper to suspect that

the whole problem is a result of sand (this despite the fact that gas masks are

said to work very well in sand storms, if at no other time).

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> Well, they are serving in a desert region and constantly inhaling

microparticles of silica and other components of sand. This alone would cause

some damage. I wonder how long it will take the military to more or less

pooh-pooh the whole thing so that the VA doesn't get " stuck " with these vets.

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> We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

> Mohandas K. Gandhi