One more infectious disease alert...BD
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. 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.
Thanks for helping bring some attention to this.
ReplyDeleteABC's story is just a cut and paste from a real story done by Chas Henry for a Naval publication.
The bug is very real and very dangerous. There are as many as five strains that have fast tracked to drug resistance in the military health system, starting in the medical evacuation sytem from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Please check out my site for details. I have been following this and researching it since my husband came back from Iraq via the military evacuation system with it.
www.iraqinfections.org