OTOH, approximately 100 incidents occurring in some 160,000 troops hardly makes
an epidemic. That these occurrences are unusual is undeniable; however, their
causation is more likely environmentally based than weapon inflicted, as some
people are suggesting. The widely separated and random nature of where and when
the illnesses struck does not support the weapon theory.

George Z.

"Mary Shafer" wrote in message
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On 4 Aug 2003 18:23:05 -0700, (blackfire)
wrote:

Three deaths have been categorised as "possible suicides", three have
died from illness, and three from drowning. The rest are unexplained.

You take plenty of young guys, reved them up, put them in powerful
vehicles and get them to drive on unsafe roads with low lights and
little traffic control and imagine what will happen. It is a miracle
that more do not get killed.

I'll tell you a weird one, though. About one hundred soldiers in
theater have had pneumonia and at least two have died. Fifteen cases
were severe enough to require ventilation; of these cases, two died,
ten recovered, and three are still hospitalized. All different units,
all different locations, spread over time. No evidence of exposure to
chemical or biological weapons, environmental toxins, or SARS.

Healthy, fit, young people don't get pneumonia. They just don't.
When they do, rare though it is, they don't die from it.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer