Posted on 09/30/2009 10:28:03 AM PDT by underthestreetlite
The Pentagon runs a massive medical research program, studying a broad range of problems from cancer to malaria to sleep disorders.
The work is done at home and abroad. For instance, The Defense Department partners on AIDS prevention with African forces, and the Army worked on an experimental AIDs vaccine tested in Thailand, announcing a breakthrough in the vaccine on Thursday.
Though military research has also benefited the civilian world, the main reason for the huge effort is to protect the U.S. armed forces as they are exposed to disease and injury while deployed around the world.
"If half of your force comes down with malaria, you can't do the mission," said Cynthia Smith, a Pentagon spokeswoman.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalnewstoday.com ...
This does not make sense. Why not keep medical research under the umbrella of the NIH?
How come Americans just keep on fighting AIDS in Africa when they, according to screaming Rev Wright, Obama’s best friend, are the ones who created designed and placed it there in the first place???
Crazy Americans.
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