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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (27554)	9/13/2003 12:40:50 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) of 89467

washingtonpost.com Failed Safeguards Are Blamed For Marines' Malaria Outbreak Despite extensive preventive measures, most of the more than 200 Marines who spent time ashore in Liberia last month apparently contracted malaria, with about 43 of them ill enough to be hospitalized. veteransforcommonsense.org Half of US Troops in Liberia Stricken with Malaria David Brown Washington Post washingtonpost.com Posted 9/10/2003 7:19:00 AM September 10, 2003, Summary: Washington Post reporter David Brown is usally the "friendly" journalist the US Department of Defense turns to when there is a medical fiasco on the horizon. When 145,000 US soldiers were confirmed exposed to low levels of sarin (sold by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein), Brown reported only the view from the Pentagon that the exposed soldiers were not ill (when in fact, scientific research shows they are). The Larium / malaria issue is a now a major problem for the military ... The malaria outbreak amounts to a stunning failure of standard protections against a disease that the American military is unusually keen to prevent in troops deployed to the tropics. So many Marines became sick in such a short time that Navy physicians for a while doubted the illnesses could all be because of the mosquito-borne infection

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