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US evolved superpathogen in Iraqi combat hopsitals

 
 
Reply Sun 21 Jan, 2007 09:33 pm
Wired to report US unwittingly evolved superpathogen in Iraqi combat hopsitals

John Byrne
Published: Sunday January 21, 2007

A 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...
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Wired_to_report_US_unwittingly_evolved_0121.html
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Behold a pale horse.
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