What a load of crap!! <g> Excerpt from your BBC report:
Last week, Belgian Defence Minister André Flahaut called on all European Union defence ministers to examine the issue.
Now, for the lowdown.... Indeed, several Belgian paratroopers who served in Yugoslavia died from what was first guessed as the "Balkan Syndrom", that is, a disease similar to the so-called Gulf Syndrom that killed several dozens of soldiers who fought the Gulf War.
Yet, local physicians are skeptical because, so far, ONLY military personnel seem to suffer from the disease --although NGO people (Doctors without Borders, etc) as well as local inhabitants (Serbs and Albanians alike) who've lived in the same areas are spared... Pretty odd, isn't it? So, doctors have tried to figure out what could cause that epidemiological discrepancy. The soldiers' death might have nothing to deal with depleted uranium; instead, doctors discovered that most military personnel were ordered to take a "vaccine cocktail" just prior to their Balkan mission --and the snag is, some of the vaccines are NOT COMPATIBLE and therefore should not have been inoculated simultaneously to the soldiers....
Gus. |
