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Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Breed Deadly Disease

5480425_83bfb97928_m.jpg Hundreds of troops wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan have been infected with a deadly bacterium in their bloodstream, cerebrospinal fluid, bones, and lungs. Civilians have also been infected after stays in military hospitals, reports the Los Angeles Times. Since 2003 at least 27 people in military hospitals have died after infection by Acinetobacter baumannii, an increasingly drug-resistant bacterium. The military claims it hasn't tabulated how many have been infected overall. The outbreak has spread to at least six American military hospitals, including the hospital ship Comfort, Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, and the Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The rise in infections has been dramatic, comprising 2 percent of admissions at the specialized burn unit at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas in 2001 and 2002, 6 percent in 2003, and 12 percent in 2005. Other military hospitals have reported similar levels.

Julia Whitty is Mother Jones' environmental correspondent. You can read from her new book, The Fragile Edge, and other writings, here.






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In SoCal we have millions of these illegal immigrants that come here and spread strange third world type disease. Legal immigrants get health exams to come here. Stop the illegals, save us.

Posted by: Sheri on 10/16/07 at 4:49 PM  Respond

Dear Sheri

The worst disease in SoCal, and it is neither strange nor third world, is called racism. You can immunize yourself by giving back some of what you stole from these "illegal immigrants" in the first place. [Assuming, of course, you didn't immigrate from Russia!]

Posted by: Dustin on 10/16/07 at 6:17 PM  Respond

Dustin, the illegals are Chinese, they are not Mexican as you imply. Natives occupied California before our dear Spain took title. Then, unfortunately, misguided folks threw the Spanish out of the former Spanish lands. When in 1848, the population of Spanish speakers(e.g. Mexicans) in California were only 8000 souls. The English speakers(Americans) were 50,000. In reality, California was not occupied. (Now we have 40million) So you see, the Mexicans have no right to allege that this is there land. Look at the corruption in Mexico. Even the Mexicans living in California do not want that. It was the white European settlers that built up our civilization. I emphasize civilization(look at Mexico before the Spanish). Dustin, you are just part of the lunatic fringe.

Posted by: Sheri on 10/16/07 at 8:32 PM  Respond

Jeez, Sheri. Your knowledge of California history has gaps big enough to drive an 18-wheel rig through.

Californios were a major ethnic group in Cali who happened to speak Spanish as well; to call them "Mexicans" is to ignore the other half (66%?) of their ancestry.

The Gold Rush of 1848/9 indeed brought many Gabachos to Cali; pray tell your source for the claim that there but 8k Spanish speakers in the area at that time.

Posted by: bedo on 10/16/07 at 8:50 PM  Respond

Stop drinking the beer, bedo. On June 15, 1846, some 30 settlers, mostly U.S. citizens, staged a revolt and seized the small Mexican garrison in Sonoma. They raised the "Bear Flag" of the California Republic over Sonoma. It lasted one week until the U.S. Army of 60 men, led by Frémont, took over on June 23. The California state flag today is based on this original Bear Flag, and still contains the words "California Republic."

Mexico lost more than 500,000 square miles (about 1,300,000 km²) of land, almost half of its territory. The annexed territories contained about 1,000 Mexican families in Alta California. Bottom line, the Mexicans were weak men(dissipated from drinking too much beer) and deserved for the 60 Americans to take the place. Darwinism, survival of the fittest. In reality, there were much more natives than Mexicans and everybody else. Mexicans stole the land from Spain, who stole the land from the natives, who did not want to share. The Mexicans that make a claim to California, are just one more group of thieves, as far as the natives are concerned. bedo, didn't you learn anything from your Columbus lessons or your science lessons about evolution and Darwinism, or may be you are one of those Creationist types?

Posted by: Sheri on 10/16/07 at 9:07 PM  Respond

Ah Soh! The Chinese! And here I’m thinking what a racist c*nt you are! Well, look dear, if you are worried about catching disease from that lot, just make sure they ware a fresh French letter every time and don’t swap the used ones with the next guy down the line.

Posted by: Dustin on 10/17/07 at 12:52 AM  Respond

Oops! That was my MS spellchecker works like a one-eyed ...

Correction: ... if you are worried about catching disease from that lot, just make sure they WEAR a fresh French letter every time and don’t swap the used ones with the next guy down the line.

Posted by: Dustin on 10/17/07 at 12:58 AM  Respond

Julia, thanks for this.
First the Desert Storm Diseases, then this Acinetobacter baumannii, now Cholera. It won’t be long before outbreaks of typhus, bubonic plague and other deadly diseases kill thousands more. You kind of know when the Empire has struck again!

And watch out for those infected vaccines!

Posted by: Bill on 10/17/07 at 3:38 AM  Respond

Thank you Julia for bringing attention to this dangerous bug.
The LA Times story came straight from the military with little research.
The acinetobacter baumannii strains from Iraq are now almost completely resistant to every antimicrobial available.
They have contaminated the entire military medical system, the VA medical system, the National Institute for Health, and civilian hospitals all across our country.
In addition countries with soldiers and contractors wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan go through our field hospitals and Landstuhl before being repatriated. Along with them goes the MDRAb.
Britian and Australia are having huge problems with this as well as many third world countries that are even less prepared than us to deal with it.
I get calls nearly every day from family members of patients dying in civilian hospitals from these strains.
The numbers are no where near what the military is promoting.
They have also been the perfect breeding ground for MRSA which is in the news now. There have been many co-infections with MRSA and MDRAb.
Marcie Hascall Clark
www.iraqinfections.org
www.acinetobacter.net

James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner(like Al Gore and J. Carter) for his part in the unravelling of DNA who now runs one of America's leading scientific research institutions and is one of the world's most eminent scientists was embroiled in an extraordinary row last night after he claimed that black people were less intelligent than white people and the idea that "equal powers of reason" were shared across racial groups was a delusion.
He said Western policies towards African countries were wrongly based on an assumption that black people were as clever as their white counterparts when "testing" suggested the contrary. He claimed genes responsible for creating differences in human intelligence could be found within a decade. So much for the waste of resources on diversity and multi-culturalism.

Posted by: Prof Watson on 10/17/07 at 7:34 AM  Respond

One heck of an astute observation, professor! Yes, we are certainly the most intelligent race of humans existed, or ever will!

Who else could possibly be so intelligent to spread war, disease, famine as efficiently as we do? Who else could be so intelligent to drive the world to the edge of destruction as effectively as we have?

We are also the most munificent race that ever graced the earth, or will! Who else would give away her tax dollars so generously to Israel to train Israeli-American-Princesses to pollute our Internet?

Rambo the Crusader ;)

Posted by: Crusader Rambo on 10/17/07 at 10:01 PM  Respond

Crusader: Watson also feels "Ashkenazi Jews" have higher intelligence than other people.
"I've wondered why people aren't more intelligent," Watson says. "Why isn't everyone as intelligent as Ashkenazi Jews? And it may be that societies work best when there's a mixture of ability - the bright people would never be an army."
Crusader,you asked "Who else would give away her tax dollars so generously to Israel to train Israeli-American-Princesses to pollute our Internet? ", it is because we are smarter then you. Remember Jacob(what does the name Jacob mean?), thru guile, deceived his own father Isaac. Does it ever end?

Posted by: Prof Watson on 10/18/07 at 7:39 AM  Respond

We are told this is a new strain of staph. But the good doctors are either ignorant of epidemiology or afraid to tell the truth. Let us reason together. New, drug-resistant strains of bacteria appear in our hospitals over the past 10 years. Some are the result of over-use of antibiotics. But others are being brought into emergency rooms by the millions of illegal aliens who use our hospitals for primary care. Doctors, nurses and others then spread these "germs" throughout the hospital. And, of course, when illegals visit their relatives in the wards they also spread the gift that keeps on giving, drug-resistant staph infections.

Posted by: Dr. Savage on 10/18/07 at 4:41 PM  Respond

October 18, 2007 Scientific American,
"Hospitals and Superbugs: Go in Sick & Get Sicker
Nearly 100,000 people die every year from bugs that they pick up in health care facilities; experts say most of these infections are preventable ." Folks, stay away from the hospitals. People die there. They are institutions of death. Choose life, don't be fat and save the planet as well. Being fat is the mother of all illnesses.

Posted by: Lee on 10/18/07 at 4:47 PM  Respond

A Mexican national infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis crossed the U.S. border 76 times and took multiple domestic flights in the past year, according to Customs and Border Protection interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times, 10/18/07


Posted by: Sheri on 10/18/07 at 5:34 PM  Respond

Watson’s REFLEXIVE admiration for Jews speaks volumes. You cannot climb the career ladder, especially if you’re an academic, politician, writer, reporter, etc, unless you develop the obligatory reflex. [And there’s, of course, the famous, ‘free,’ uniting Israel tours that you must attend!]

It’s true that Jews have received 150 or so Nobel Prizes in that past 100 years, but there is a number of other reasons for that. For one, Nobel is a political prize and goes to whomever the cabal says it should go! You could be a plagiarist, outright fraud, war criminal, psychopath, even a terrorist and still end up with the prize! Some of the previous winners included Henry Kissinger [seriously?] Menachem Begin [you’re kidding, right?], Shimon Peres [him too?], Milton Friedman... [next “the man of peace,” Ariel Sharon, posthumously, perhaps?]

It’s elementary, Watson! There is NO evidence to suggest that Jews, Ashkenazi and whatnot, are any more intelligent than other groups/races. In fact, if anything, historical evidence proves the opposite. Jews have invariably failed the social “intelligence test” throughout the history. They have been persecuted because, among other reasons, they lacked the aptitude to assimilate! Their group evolutionary strategy may appear successful in the short run, but implodes in the medium and longer terms because it’s EXCLUSIONARY, inordinately divisive and resource intensive (and therefore unintelligent). Any attempt to wipe out other groups to succeed by default (the last remaining group), as new trend in the tactics seems to suggest, would ultimately prove genocidal, ecocidal and therefore suicidal [unintelligent.]

Posted by: Anony mous on 10/19/07 at 8:36 AM  Respond

Anony mous, your analysis is remarkable. I hope the prof. will give you a high mark on your paper.

Posted by: Mustafa on 10/20/07 at 6:32 AM  Respond

Prof Kevin MacDonald, California State University Long Beach(web site) wrote many books on the subject of the Jews. Social and Personality Development: An Evolutionary Synthesis (1988), A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (1994), Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism (1998), and The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (1998). I think that you will like these Anony mous.

Posted by: Trudy on 10/20/07 at 7:53 AM  Respond

Trudy,
MacDonald is advocating a similar exclusionary strateg [with both Freudian and Frankfort School overtones] when he says: “Actually I rather doubt that my children will be well cared for in a non-white America.”

http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/Blog.htm

Posted by: Anony mous on 10/20/07 at 9:47 PM  Respond

MacDonald is afraid of nonwhite racism that would be against his white children. Look at all the non white racism in South Africa and Zimbabwe for starters. Look at all the nonwhite crime against whites in America too.

Posted by: Trudy on 10/21/07 at 7:20 AM  Respond

Trudy

Have a feeling you want to raise the question what the whites were doing in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the first place, or give the stats for the many millions of blacks they murdered.

Since the 1450s we the proud Caucasians have murdered about a quarter of a billion non-whites including about 95 percent of the world’s indigenous peoples.

For a more recent listing of crimes against the nonwhites see: Table of contents, Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. Http://members.aol.com/bblum6/American_holocaust.htm

For various military campaigns including United States military history events see Wikipedia, or google for the latest casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Posted by: Anony mous on 10/21/07 at 5:32 PM  Respond

Anony mous, ever hear of Darwin and evolution. Sorry, Nature or Mother Goddess or whatever you like to call her, is not a liberal, but a G. Bush type. Get use to it sister. Nature rewards the strong and punishes the weak. Survival of the strongest. I make no apology for my Germanic ancestors. Look at the Communists(Marxist Jew origin) in the Soviet Union, they killed 100million and the Chinese Communists killed 150million, not to mention the 50million killed years ago by internal civil wars in China and the Mongol invasions. The Africans killed each other big time way before they ever saw a white face to sell their bothers too, same for the natives in South America. It is all Darwinism in action. You must be one of those "Creationist
types. (I do not mean to slight the Muslims, Jews and others by not mentioning them, the above were just examples). But as Drs. Savage, Lee, and this article by Julia implied, the bugs will get us all. Survival of the fittest.

Posted by: Trudy on 10/21/07 at 6:04 PM  Respond

Trudy

You are confusing the fittest with the fattest [not sure if Darwin knew the difference himself!] AAR, the next time you see a dinosaur ask her what happened to her and her family since they were the fittest and fattest just before going extinct. (Darwin and evolution, remember?)

Afraid I can't help you here, since you are mixing fact with fiction, Junk science with soap opera, and making up figures as you go along. The “Marxist Jew origin,” BTW, are doing fine for now; they’ve shape-shifted (sound familiar?) into neocons and running the show at a “theater” near you!

This is proving counterproductive, since your posts lack substance, cohesion and logic.

Bye!

Posted by: Anony mous on 10/22/07 at 5:53 AM  Respond

Trudy and Anonymous , the way that you post, one could think that you are anti-Semites. Dr. Watson is right about us being blessed by G-d as being the most intelligent, as a group(there are glaring exceptions, but exceptions do not prove the rule). You can thank my people for bring the world's greatest scientists and philosophers. Freud, Marx, the Old Testament, you name it. My people came to America with nothing, now we our represented way beyond our population percentage in the media and many of the professions, not to mention finance. We worked hard and struggled and know how to network. The other minorities, e.g. Afro-American and Hispanic, can learn from us how to overcome obstacles. Success brings resentment. But we can handle it. We are hated because we are blessed and successful. I am sorry Trudy and Anonymous that you are not successful and blame my people, but if you learn how to work hard, sacrifice and network, you too can become successful. America is a land of opportunity. We have proven that.

Posted by: Isaac P. on 10/22/07 at 7:11 AM  Respond

trudy (AKA, sheri, sheryl, dr savage, prof watson, lee, luci dong, ms science... Issac P...)

your kippa fell and you didn’t even notice!

Posted by: Crusader Rambo on 10/22/07 at 8:55 PM  Respond

If you had a Jewish mother like I have, you would be the same. Crusader, your name indicates that you could harbor anti-Semitic views like Annony.

Posted by: Prof. Watson on 10/23/07 at 7:38 AM  Respond

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