{"id":64750,"date":"2016-03-09T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T15:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64750"},"modified":"2016-03-09T10:30:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T15:30:42","slug":"camp-victory-illnesses-may-be-linked-to-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64750","title":{"rendered":"Camp Victory illnesses may be linked to dust"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bobo sends us a link to the Stars & Stripes<\/a> which reports that biopsies of six soldiers’ lungs has revealed titanium and other metals deposited there probably;y from dust;<\/p>\n

“It matched dust that we have collected from Camp Victory” in Iraq.<\/p>\n

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

“They’ve inhaled metal,” Szema said. “It’s not a little; it’s a lot.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The shards of metal are 1\/30th the size of a human hair and very pointy according to the article. It may have resulted from the burn pits, or from the first Gulf War “when Iraqi missiles and U.S. bombs melded dust to metal”.<\/p>\n

Titanium and iron are both associated with pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension in humans, Szema said.<\/p>\n

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

So, tell me, how, exactly, the Defense Department can justify raising out-of-pocket costs for veterans’ health care? I guess it’s our fault for breathing so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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