deaths are multiplying the "Balkans Syndrome" Defense is launching a project to reassure the soldiers. The silent deaths
The uranium is now the new front Iraqdi Cited Stefano - La Repubblica
July 26, 2004 ROME - There are Italian soldiers who die in silence. They are victims of diseases of war. "Gulf War Syndrome", "Balkan syndrome", now, perhaps, a "new Gulf War Syndrome." Two deaths last month, last July 13. Celio military hospital in Rome a few weeks would be treated in a special pavilion twenty military mission in Iraq would have stopped for the onset of diseases related to depleted uranium. Organizations representing the interests of the military also have a long list of young soldiers that, throughout Italy and at their expense, are being treated for various cancers. Since the scandal broke out of depleted uranium in the winter of 2000-2001, would have been thirty deaths due to exposure of the dust of what the Americans call the '91 "Metal of Dishonor." It would be almost 300 soldiers with diseases "suspicious." It is to try to stem this tide that the defense is going to start a project that would put an end to the controversy on the dangers of depleted uranium. And according to the associations for the protection of military might instead of finally burying the truth.
The deaths of the soldiers affected by these tumor syndromes are all alike, but have not yet been officially recognized. These evils is death, but death does not lead to recognition of the cause of service, compensation for engagement in peace missions in this decade - from Somalia on - have involved tens of thousands of military personnel is italiani.Non Mandelli enough the Commission, established more than three years ago and presided over Roman dall'ematologo to establish a reliable link between DU - depleted uranium, depleted uranium they are made of shells and the armor, mainly used by the Americans. But the commission has not even been able to completely exclude a relationship between diseases and exposure to dust: so much so that he established an extensive program of tests for all those soldiers who were (and still are) committed in the Balkans.
Over 40 thousand people every 4 months for at least three years - and at least once a year within two years - should have been subject to controls that were supposed to confirm the good state of health over time. These periodic examinations are not doing instead of with the regularity and number set. According to medical sources of the Armed Forces military hospitals - mostly concentrated in the north - are not able to perform all screening: no staff and lacks the ability to control such a vast population examined. The percentage of tests carried out was around 50 percent. Yet it was the same committee Mandelli, although criticized for the statistical methods adopted for the survey of rates of disease among the military, stating that a number larger than the average percentage of Hodgkins lymphomas (cancers of glandular apparatus) was found in the groups studied. After three years of procedures not complied with exams not completed or completed late, regardless of tables, now military leaders have decided to transfer the remains of the control program from military to civil hospitals. In doing so the costs of tests (ranging from a few dozen to a few €), will multiply - for a total of several tens of millions a year - will rise as the waiting time for results, given that the public are unlikely to meet the required timeframe. In this way, say some experts, the efficacy of the whole procedure will be lost. The only solution, he points out, would be to "bring together all patients in one hospital and submit to examinations continued and deepened." And maybe to overcome the impossibility of complying with the recommendations of the committee in 2001 that the government has launched a new project: Signum. Acronym for "impact study genotoxic military units." Funded through the law of March 12, 2004, No. 68 with Article 13-ter (published in the Official Journal of 18 March) that authorizes "the expenditure of 1,175,330 for 2004 (...) for the study of assessment of levels of uranium and other potentially toxic elements. "To illustrate how and when Michael was then the General Director-General of Health Donvito military during the hearing in the House on June 29. About one thousand soldiers, selected on a voluntary basis, will be carried out before the exams in Iraq, considered to be "significantly degraded environment" (alternatively there would be the Balkans); screening will be repeated on the subjects, all with equipment protection agents nuclear, chemical and bacteriological (NBC), in the theaters of operation and the return of volunteers at home. withdrawals urine, blood and hair, which should enable the various military laboratories and civilians involved in the program complete an observation of any "potentially toxic elements (uranium, arsenic, cadmium, nickel - these metals in batteries of arms and cash, ed), but perhaps even the" cocktail "of vaccines injected first missions and that some people consider as possibly responsible for the onset of cancer. Signum
should start in mid August and would give the first results "within 18 months." Should last 10 years, not only focusing on uranium but also on other potentially harmful environmental agents, and would put a "milestone for the entire international scientific forum". For organizations representing the interests of the military would Signum instead a "tombstone" to ascertain the truth about the possibilities of uranium and other potential causes of the diseases that are killing so many soldiers. The conditions of the search are considered unpacked, the point of rendering ineffective, if not distorted, each result. Can not be considered scientifically relevant - point out the leaders of the association - a group of soldiers with protection of all, as you pointed out that in the past (and still practice it would last in Iraq) military personnel has almost never taken the measures established by the Defense Security from 22 November '99 (the Americans have adopted since 14 October '93). The health
military - which has always reiterated that there is no link between DU exposure and the diseases of the "Gulf War Syndrome / Balkans" - is certain that thanks to Signum can definitely confirm his beliefs. But then, they ask several members of the military and also because the study is conducted only on subjects with NBC equipment? And why, in the form of inquiry that the volunteers fill out there is one point about "spontaneous interruptions of pregnancy, diseases of births," which seems to confirm the advice that has long aimed at those who are party to certain theaters of war to refrain from procreating over the next three years after returning from the mission? Why in times of economic hardship on the eve of radical reform of an army of only professionals who should be able to offer attractive prospects, it was decided to invest a considerable amount (if you multiply by the 10-year duration of the project) instead of allocating, as requested by certain Members , to establish a fund that guarantees the causes of service to all those soldiers who get sick in "carrying out their duty"? is what they ask for some soldiers suffering from all diseases like, cancer almost always, and in their homes or in the hospital bed, cared for by relatives or comrades, engaged in lengthy and expensive treatments, ready to become guinea pigs for scientific research, hope must be granted by a dying star that hurt them affected during the service, while patrolling an area contaminated while cleaning weapons or vehicles with chemical solvents, while conducting tests with military weapons in polygons (in Sardinia, but not exclusively), where in recent decades were also tested devices on behalf of other NATO countries (and therefore also American). Some patients wonder why others do not speak in their own conditions, but will meet the reserve and recalling the reluctance, due to the esprit de corps, the link with the institutions, as strong as - if not most - of fear, which leads to remain silent and to keep in mind that even if you are part of the "no force", which has been put in condition but is not dismissed, however, is subject to the rules of order military.
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