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[Allgov News] Out of 80 military personnel examined, Miller found 34 were suffering from constrictive bronchiolitis, sarcoidosis, respiratory bronchiolitis, respiratory bronchiolisitis with interstitial lung disease or hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Many of these conditions are irreversible and untreatable.
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[WebMD Health] Iraq War Vets Return With Lung Disease: On return, none of those diagnosed with bronchiolitis met physical training standards. In almost every case they were declared unfit for duty and were medically boarded with a service connected disability," says researcher Robert Miller, MD, assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Vanderbilt University, in a news release.
[Latest Breaking Health News & Information -RSS headlines- Health.am] Iraq War Service: A Risk Factor for Bronchiolitis? - Respiratory ...: A large group of soldiers returning from Iraq have been diagnosed with bronchiolitis, a disease affecting the small airways of the lung, according to Vanderbilt University Medical Center physicians who will present their findings at the American Thoracic Society’s 2008 International Conference in Toronto on Wednesday, May 21.
[Army Times - News] Lung disease of soldier linked to burn pits - Army News, news from ...: Because there was no scarring on the soldiers' lungs, doctors decided it must have been toxic inhalation and added a fifth cause of bronchiolitis to their list: “Iraq.” Since Military Times began reporting in October about burn pits in the war zones, .Meanwhile, annual cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among service members have risen 82 percent since 2001, to 24555 last year, while cases of all other respiratory illnesses have risen 37 percent, to 28276, .
[Untitled] » The KBR killing fields subsidized by US tax dollars: Service members stationed at more than 100 bases in Iraq and Afghanistan began to ask similar questions as more and more complained of the “Iraqi crud” ” a constant cough with darkened phlegm ” often blamed on the horrific sandstorms.
[Fabius Maximus] Did exposure to “burn pits” in Iraq and Afghanistan harm our ...: Since Military Times began reporting in October about burn pits in the war zones, 400 troops have contacted Disabled American Veterans to say they have breathing problems or cancers they believe came after exposure to the burn pits. Many say they have been diagnosed with “asthma-like” or “allergy-like” symptoms when theyve complained of shortness of breath, but their doctors cant come up with an exact diagnosis.
[Army Times - News] VA, DoD seek better data on burn-pit exposure - Army News, news ...: At the first meeting of the IOM’s Committee on the Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, Cassano asked the panel to help VA determine if the symptoms of several sick service members could be linked to exposure to smoke from open-air burn pits in the war zones.
[Marine Corps Community for USMC Marine Veterans] Open-air trash burning in Iraq a hot issue - Marine Corps ...: A study released in May by researchers at Vanderbilt University found that 29 of 56 Fort Campbell, Ky.-based soldiers surveyed were diagnosed with bronchiolitis, an infectious disease of the lower respiratory tract, after returning from Iraq in 2003. The military said many of those soldiers were exposed to a sulfur fire near Mosul, but researchers found that others had no clear exposure history.
[Firedoglake] Popcorn Workers Lung: Workers As Society's Canaries In the Coal ...: A doctor at the union press conference was complaining that he had workers coming into his office with lung problems and MSDSs that claimed that the ingredients were “trade secrets,” which is allowed under certain conditions by the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard. Of course, then theres no way to tell if the MSDS is lying or if there might be some kind of “new” hazard being caused by a chemical previously considered to be safe.
[Journal of Inflammation - Latest Articles] Journal of Inflammation | Full text | CD4/CD8 ratio and cytokine ...: Macrophages in BAL fluid from the lungs of smokers and those patients with COPD are elevated many fold [49]. Furthermore, there is a positive association between macrophage numbers in the alveolar walls and the presence of mild-to-moderate emphysema as well as the degree of small airways disease in patients with COPD [49].
[Cricketdiane's Weblog] Toxic Fumes across America - and the Health “Care” Summit in ...: These are the same government legislators who filled our vaccines with mercury, who allowed the FDA to serve the drug companies, who wanted the National Highways and Safety Administration to serve the interests of car manufacturers instead of safety, who removed the USDA inspectors and food safety inspectors at every level such that food borne illnesses carried in our food supply killed thousands of people, who let our health care industries and pharmaceutical companies get away with killing over 100,000 people a year through errors, mistakes, bad medicine, bad medical practices, misdiagnoses, stupidity, incompetence and lack of concern, who let our entire nation fall from a powerhouse to become nothing but a bed of iniquity, corruption, police brutality and putrid toxic chemical stews where we live while bankers and Wall Street firms are paid to steal every last dime from us legally. What happens when good, decent people go to Washington or to our state government legislatures that makes them create and apply policy that is so horribly, horribly wrong?
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