ABC News: Killer Germ Comes Home With Troops
Acinetobacter baumannii has been found in military hospitals in Germany, the Washington, D.C., area and Texas -- the primary destinations of wounded service members from the two war zones. And it has now spread to civilians, according to the report.
"The outbreak began traveling with patients or nonpatients from Iraq all the way back to Walter Reed," said Dr. Rox Anderson at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Timothy Endy, a retired Army colonel now teaching infectious disease medicine at the Upstate Medical University of the State University of New York, said the outbreak might be the largest of its kind to spread through hospitals in history.
Acinetobacter baumannii from the military medical system is not new and is not mysterious.
ReplyDeleteMy husband came back from Iraq with this via Dogwood, Landstuhl, Walter Reed after being blown up in July 2003.
It was negligence, not mystery.
The article this blurb was taken from is by Chas Henry at www.chashenry.com.
Steve Silberman did a great investigative story on it last year which is available at
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.02/enemy.html
The MSM media ignored or avoided this important "breaking story" but now wants to call it new and mysterious.
For more on Acinetobacter baumannii go to
www.iraqinfections.org
And thanks for posting this.
It's important to everyone.
Marcie Hascall Clark
thank you very much for your comment marcy. i am very sorry about your husband.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind words.
ReplyDeleteThe acinetobacter was not as drug resistant as it is now when my husband had it. He recovered but with permanent disabilities due to the toxic drugs they used to kill it in addition to the blast injuries.
It's much more difficult now.
Long Live the REVOLution
Marcie Clark