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Deadly mystery disease follows troops home
“Schuring, barely conscious and lying on a gurney, heard the doctor tell him that the infection could spread: “This can kill you.”” Acinetobacter baumannii, is the cause of many outbreaks overseas in our military hospitals. Read more on how one brave soldier came in contact with a battle for his life.
Deadly mystery disease follows troops home
“You have an organism of relatively low virulence that became more important because you’ve run out of drugs to treat it with,” Tenover said.The question that Petersen struggled with was how this bug had found its way into modern military hospitals.Doctors could beat back an infection with the strongest antibiotics, and hospitals could try to scrub away the bacteria. But those weren’t solutions.
51 U.S. soldiers in Iraq diagnosed with swine flu
Written by The Associated Press
August, 9, 2009
msnbc.com
BAGHDAD - Fifty-one American troops in Iraq have been diagnosed with and treated for swine flu, while another 71 soldiers remain in isolation suspected of contracting the potentially deadly virus, the U.S. military said Sunday.
The figures were released as Iraqi health officials confirmed Sunday the country’s first swine flu death.
A woman in the southern holy Shiite city of Najaf died of the disease, raising fears about a possible outbreak among worshippers making pilgrimages to the revered sites.