According to the New York Times, there is an epidemic of cholera in Iraq. The virus (or bacteria) that causes the disease doesn't care whether you are an Iraqi or an American. If an American soldier serving in Iraq catches the disease, he will inevitably bring it to the US. How can we prevent that from happening?
2007-09-21 04:30:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Shoot all your soldiers returning from Iraq?
Prevent your soldiers from returning?
Clear out Guantanamo and use the facilities to house all returning US soldiers?
View them as bio-terrorists and treat them as such?
Do you seriously imagine any non US citizen can give a flying feck what you do with your soldiers bringing in a cholera epedemic?
2007-09-21 04:46:19 · answer #1 · answered by Devil's Advocate 3 · 1⤊ 6⤋
The NY Times needs to go to a dictionary. Cholera is endemic in Iraq. Not epidemic. It has been there for many years. A case was diagnosed in Baghdad. One case. The highest toll of victims was in 1999, when our troops weren't even there. Our troops are vaccinated against Cholera. The disease itself is only transmittable by contact with the body fluids of an infected person or by exposure to filthy water and food. Did the NY Times mention that? Probably not.
2007-09-21 04:54:25 · answer #2 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure they have a grip on cholera at least with our soldiers. I'm not sure if they gave me a shot for it but you have about 5 or 6 shots just to leave the country.
2007-09-21 04:41:31 · answer #3 · answered by talbotsgt 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it is being prevented right now. Before any U.S. troops are sent anywhere overseas, not just Iraq, they get a battery of inoculations-----1 is for cholera. The New York Times is just trying to start another scare among the U.S. population, and you fell for it.
2007-09-21 04:38:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Cholera is primarily transmitted through substandard infrastructure, ie, the sewage and water delivery systems. Maybe New York should worry.
I'm more worried about the drug resistant TB that's flooding in from illegal foreigners.
2007-09-21 04:40:29 · answer #5 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Africa still has malaria, those with sickle cell anemia survive the miskitoe that carries the sickness.
You should be worried about the unknow illnesses the army refuses to medically help the soldiers with, I would liek to know what these red spot/dots are that are on my body from Kuwaite, never had them before, and I go over there and now I have red spot/dots on my body and get a new one every couple of months. WTF.
2007-09-21 06:09:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all - our troops are vaccinated against Cholera. Second of all cholera spreads when sewage contaminates water supplies.
Either one of these reasons means that the NYT is full of it.
2007-09-21 05:19:02 · answer #7 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Stop reading the NY Times. Those nuts are always trying to convince you, with their outlandish ideas, that the world will end tomorrow if Democrats are not in charge of the White House.
They all must start their day out having an LSD party, judging by the tripe they produce daily.
2007-09-21 05:02:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋