Sunday, November 19, 2006

Cannon fodder.

Drugs used on soldiers in Iraq may be killing them:
"American military doctors here have injected more than 1,000 of the war's wounded soldiers with a potent and largely experimental blood-coagulating drug despite mounting medical evidence linking it to deadly blood clots that lodge in the lungs, heart and brain.

Recombinant Activated Factor VII is approved in the U.S. for treating only rare forms of hemophilia affecting about 2,700 Americans. In a warning in December, the Food and Drug Administration said that giving it to patients with normal blood could cause strokes and heart attacks. Its researchers published a study in January blaming 43 deaths on clots that developed after injections of Factor VII."

Which reminds one of this which ran in today's Los Angeles Times:
"The Pacific Project exposed U.S. sailors to biowarfare and chemical agents. Forty years later, some of these sickened warriors are still 'lost' at sea."

Or the Gulf War Syndrome. Or Agent Orange. Or the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. When have we ever properly honored those in the service and not just used them up?

1 comment:

ellroon said...

Oh dear god, yes. Like the Nazis keeping track of their experiments with extreme cold, chemicals in the body, etc. We will have these torturers walking freely among us. Are we prepared?