He has rotting on his head and hands. They thought it was poison oak because he does fish. however he was hospitalized and they called it an infectious disease. Possible from a sand fly/flea? What the heck is it?
2007-08-15 19:06:15 · 6 answers · asked by HYPERMONKEY 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
It depends on what he was exposed to. And unfortunately there is so much that our troops was exposed to only an infectious disease specialist will be able to perform the test and lab work necessary, and even then they may not be able to completely diagnosis it but at least provide him some adequate and effective treatment. Also if he has any contact with any other members from his unit will help narrow it down. They may have all been to the same toxin and having the same problems. If so it will help his doctor and theirs. It will also cause a snowball effect with the military, they will be notified of the toxin and possibly be able to avoid further exposure. God Bless him for putting his life on the line for us. May god bless him and the doctors who will treat him.
2007-08-15 19:18:51 · answer #1 · answered by nyc2caligal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I gotta tell you... this may probably be worse than he's prepared to take in.
So-called "Gulf War Illness" has two or more causes:
1) Vaccine damage - they walk these soldiers through a gauntlet of shots and they come out of the other end of the building a couple of quarts heavier and throwing up. Most of these vaccines are experimental at best, and most are just plain poison... everything from mercury and aluminum to who-knows-what-else. There is no rhyme or reason for giving them all of these vaccines at once. They can result in a delayed eruption of autoimmune diseases.
2) Depleted Uranium (DU) - this is what has almost 500,000 of the Gulf War I veterans fighting multiple cancers, if they are still alive right now. The military went in with air strikes, missiles with DU payloads designed to penetrate deep and fast... and the DU disperses all around the area in a very fine, radioactive dust that no gas mask can filter out.
A lot of personnel are coming home with their kidneys shutting down, or with leukemia. Others will fight multiple cancers at the same time until they die.
When being admitted into a VA hospital, the doctors ask what war they were in... you will notice that the veterans who were in wars where DU was deployed, will be shuffled off to a different part of the hospital.
3) STRESS - this will aggravate the other two into doing whatever they can do in the body a lot faster.
IAre Bush and his bunch of crooks trying to kill our armed forces off while making a lot of money off it? Sure they are!
2007-08-16 02:25:00 · answer #2 · answered by revsuzanne 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If he was hospitalised then he probably has other symptoms/signs.
You mention infectious disease possibly from a sandfly. This would probably be Leishmaniasis which is very prevalent there.
Now by rotting I assume you mean sores? Feel free to email me if you want any more info; I'm from that area.
Good luck.
2007-08-16 11:26:51 · answer #3 · answered by Blah? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-08-16 02:56:25 · answer #4 · answered by elptl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Get him to a hospital or his primary care doctor asap. Tell them he just came back from iraq.
2007-08-16 02:09:29 · answer #5 · answered by Educated 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
biological warfare?
2007-08-16 02:13:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋