{"id":49613,"date":"2014-06-03T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49613"},"modified":"2014-06-02T18:55:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T22:55:55","slug":"camp-victory-dust-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49613","title":{"rendered":"Camp Victory dust stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-344MP sends us this link about a study that came out a few months ago, but for some reason, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2014\/06\/02\/lung-study-va\/9771237\/\">USTODAY<\/a> just noticed it. I guess Ex-344MP is especially interested in the study because he was at Camp Victory in Iraq;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We biopsied several patients and found titanium in every single one of them,&#8221; said Anthony Szema, an assistant professor at Stony Brook School of Medicine who specializes in pulmonology and allergies. &#8220;It matched dust that we have collected from Camp Victory&#8221; in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The dust is different from dust found elsewhere in that human lungs are unable to dispel it through natural immune-system processes. The Iraq dust comes attached to iron and copper, and it forms polarizable crystals in the lungs, Szema said. The particles \u2014 each bit 1\/30th the size of a human hair \u2014 have sharp edges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve inhaled metal,&#8221; Szema said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a little; it&#8217;s a lot.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The patients that Doc saw were all suffering from &#8220;constrictive bronchiolitis&#8221; &#8211; a narrowing of breathing passages. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Titanium and iron are both associated with pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension in humans, Szema said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Defense Department released its annual relative morbidity report. A USA TODAY analysis of reports dating from 2001 to 2013, as well as Defense Manpower Data, shows that the number of people reporting respiratory and chest symptoms increased from a rate of 406 per 10,000 in 2001 to 744 per 10,000 in 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-344MP sends us this link about a study that came out a few months ago, but &hellip; <a title=\"Camp Victory dust stuff\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49613\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Camp Victory dust stuff<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}