Saturday, February 23, 2008
Insurgents in the Bloodstream
Sgt. David Emery lost one leg in February 2007 when a suicide bomber assaulted the checkpoint near Haditha, Iraq, where he and fellow Marines stood guard. Military surgeons were forced to remove his remaining leg when it became infected with acinetobacter baumannii-a strain of highly resistant bacteria that since U.S. forces began fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan has threatened the lives, limbs, and organs of hundreds wounded in combat.
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Chas Henry wrote this story and has more on Acinetobacter baumannii at www.chashenry.com.
Over a year ago Steve Silberman of Wired Magazine did an excellent investigative story on Acinetobacter baumannii which was ignored by the MSM. The Invisible Enemy is linked at my site.
Strains of this from the US military evacuation chain out of Iraq have grown resistant to every antimicrobial available.
They have spread thoughout the entire US military health system to include the VA health system.
Civilian hospitals all the the US, the UK, Australia, and other coalition countries have been infected.
If the DoD had put as much effort into containing that they did into covering it up thousands of lives and limbs would be saved.
This is just cranking up.
For more www.iraqinfections.org
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