Mystery pneumonia toll may be much higher in Iraq

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http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030915-014545-8114r

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Mysterious pneumonia-like illnesses and breathing problems appear to be striking U.S. troops in greater numbers than the military has identified in an investigation -- including more deaths, according to soldiers and their families.

Some of the soldiers were deployed to Iraq and died but are not part of the Pentagon's investigation. Others who got ill told United Press International they suffered a pneumonia-like illness after being given vaccines, particularly the anthrax shot.

The Pentagon said it is committed to the health of military personnel and that some dead or ill soldiers do not meet criteria for the investigation. Pentagon health officials said a statistical analysis essentially has ruled out vaccines and that the role of smoking has emerged as a leading factor instead.

One Air Force staff sergeant who was deployed to Turkey for Operation Iraqi Freedom told UPI he was hospitalized in Incerlik in March with a pneumonia-like illness, 10 days after his fourth anthrax shot. He got his next anthrax shot in August, and 10 days later was hospitalized in California with what he said was the same pneumonia-like illness.

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[joeybee12]

1. The news from there gets better every day!

If people paid attention, Dumbo would not simply be impeached, he'd be executed!

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Human guinea pigs?

Am I slow on the draw, or was it already tinfoiled that our soldiers could be guinea pigs for an anthrax vaccination?