Wired to report US unwittingly evolved superpathogen in Iraqi combat hospitals
John ByrnePublished: Sunday January 21, 2007A drug-resistant bacteria that is infecting wounded US soldiers in Iraq -- and has spread to civilian hospitals in parts of Europe -- accidentally evolved in US military hospitals in Iraq, Wired Magazine will report in a massive expose on Monday, RAW STORY has learned.
The several thousand word expose is set to bring uncomfortable new light to the bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii that Pentagon officials previously said was likely a product of Iraqi soil.
"By creating the most heroic and efficient means of saving lives in the history of warfare, the Pentagon had accidentally invented a machine for accelerating bacterial evolution and was airlifting the pathogens halfway around the world," the magazine reveals.
The story will go live online early Monday, newsroom sources say, and appear in February's print edition.
DEVELOPING...
posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 12:36 AM
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Kangaroo
There is patient at the Royal Brisbane right now who has this Acinetobacter Baumannii. He was injured in Dili taken to an army hospital and has been transferred there.
Thought you would like to know it's there. There was an outbreak in 2006 same hospital.
Thanks marcie, I will check into that bit of information now.
Welcome from Down Under.
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