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A pathologist hired by the family of one of two women whose mysterious deaths in Thailand drew worldwide attention says her "lungs were 100 percent congested," Jill St. Onge's fiancee and brother said. Jill St. Onge died while vacationing with her fiance at a Thailand resort. "He said her lung tissue was gone," said her brother, Robert St. Onge. The pathologist has not determined what caused her lungs to fail, he said, and a final report on her May 2 death may still be weeks away. But members of St. Onge's family said they feel the pathologist's findings, though preliminary,...

Karen Wells, a registered nurse in Indiana, has suffered from Morgellons since 2005 and, she says, lost a friend to the disease in 2004. “Everything is so uncertain, but is does kill,” she insists. “I have seen [Morgellons disease] kill not just my friend, but in the hospital where I work.” Wells, who works in a neurology unit, says that she sees Morgellons lesions on patients who don’t know they have it. The lesions are sometimes accompanied by cognitive symptoms such as anxiety attacks, panic and nightmares, she says.

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Pelicans suffering from a mysterious malady are crashing into cars and boats, wandering along roadways and turning up dead by the hundreds across the West Coast, from southern Oregon to Baja California, Mexico, bird-rescue workers say. Weak, disoriented birds are huddling in people's yards or being struck by cars. More than 100 have been rescued along the California coast, according to the International Bird Rescue Research Center in San Pedro. Hundreds of birds, disoriented or dead, have been observed across the West Coast. "One pelican actually hit a car in Los Angeles,"

The mystery viral hemorrhagic fever which killed 3 people in South Africa has been provisionally identified as an arenavirus, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases [NICD] and the Department of Health said on Sunday [12 Oct 2008]. "The causative agent of the disease may be a rodent-born arenavirus related to the Lassa fever virus of West Africa," NICD's Dr Lucille Blumberg said at the Charlotte Maxexe Johannesburg Academic Hospital. She said tests done by the NICD and the Centers for Disease Control [CDC] in Atlanta, USA indicated that the disease seemed to be a kind of arenavirus. The World Health...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination. Reports of unusual colony deaths have come from at least 22 states. Some affected commercial beekeepers — who often keep thousands of colonies — have reported losing more than 50 percent of their bees. A colony can have roughly 20,000 bees in the winter, and up to 60,000 in the summer. The country‘s bee population had already been shocked in recent years by a tiny, parasitic bug...

Tito Mukhopadhyay shuffles to the front door of his home in Austin, Texas. He's coming home from school, something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. His mother, 45-year-old Soma Mukhopadhyay, is considered a pioneer in a breakthrough treatment for some autistic children who face the stigma of being considered "mentally retarded." That was a label Soma never accepted for 19-year-old Tito. And after hearing Tito's story, you'll never look at an autistic child the same way. "How was your day?" Soma asks. Before Tito can answer, he obsessively moves around the house, placing the TV remote...

Is pig-brain 'mist' linked to mystery ailment? 09 February 2008 NewScientist.com news service WORKERS at two pork-processing plants in the US have developed a mysterious nervous ailment after using compressed air to blast brain tissue from severed pig heads. The end product is a pink food paste that is canned and exported, but the process also generates an aerosol of brain matter that workers may inhale. Since 2006, 12 workers at a Minnesota slaughterhouse have developed symptoms ranging from weakness, tingling and numbness to acute paralysis, US health authorities reported on 31 January (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, vol 57,...

AUSTIN, Minn. — If you have to come down with a strange disease, this town of 23,000 on the wide-open prairie in southeastern Minnesota is a pretty good place to be. The Mayo Clinic, famous for diagnosing exotic ailments, owns the local medical center and shares some staff with it. Mayo itself is just 40 miles east in Rochester. And when it comes to investigating mysterious outbreaks, Minnesota has one of the strongest health departments and best-equipped laboratories in the country. And the disease that confronted doctors at the Austin Medical Center here last fall was strange indeed. Three patients...

'Twitching' Illness Hits Several Students, Staff at Virginia SchoolWednesday, November 07, 2007 VINTON, Va. — A mysterious illness causing an odd "twitching" symptom has stricken several students and a staff member at a Virginia high school. Testing continues at William Byrd High School in Roanoke County where students and staff have shown strange symptoms of twitching and spasms since September, but a cause has yet to be determined. About 30 students staged a walkout and protest earlier this week, and the school has said about 300 of the school's 1,200 students have been absent. School officials say they do not...

An object that struck the high plains of Peru on Saturday, causing a mysterious illness among local residents, was a rare kind of meteorite, scientists announced today. A team of Peruvian researchers confirmed the origins of the object, which crashed near Lake Titicaca, after taking samples to a lab in the capital city of Lima (see Peru map). Nearby residents who visited the impact crater complained of headaches and nausea, spurring speculation that the explosion was a subterranean geyser eruption or a release of noxious gas from decayed matter underground. But the illness was the result of inhaling arsenic fumes,...

Mystery DR Congo fever kills 60 More than 60 people have died because of a fever epidemic in the centre of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, health officials say. Many of the victims are people who have been in contact with the deceased, including medical staff, and who lack equipment to deal with the illness. The latest victim was a nurse at a local hospital. She died on Thursday after taking care of infected patients. Health officials say the medical staff had no masks and this put them at risk. Speaking from Kananga, the capital of the West Kasai...

Sufferers describe ghastly symptoms; but some doctors skeptical of claims The Bay Area might be home to a small cluster of a horrifying and as-yet-incurable disease that leaves patients with open sores all over their bodies and strange, unidentifiable objects poking out of their skin. Or not. It's possible that this mystery disease is all in their heads. The disease is called Morgellons, and no one knows what causes it or if it's even real. After more than a year of pressure from patients convinced they have Morgellons, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will begin investigating the ailment...

PANIC is sweeping through suburbs north of Katutura after three people died and 19 others were hospitalised with a disease that still has to be identified. A press release from the Ministry of Health and Social Services last night indicated that the disease was not confined to the Khomas Region, and that cases of "undiagnosed paralysis" among adults had been reported in the Otjozondjupa and Hardap regions. A media briefing is scheduled for this morning to reveal information related to the outbreak. Well-placed hospital sources confirmed yesterday that two other people were fighting for their lives in the Intensive Care...

OUTBREAK! Border mystery disease: Is huge scare even real? Symptoms include persistent lesions, fibers popping out of skin, brain fog -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 18, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Ron Strom -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Fibers removed from facial lesion of 3-year-old boy A nonprofit foundation is working to drum up awareness of a border-area mystery disease that's been described as something out of a horror film, but which most mainstream doctors refuse to admit exists. The Morgellons Research Foundation hopes to inform lawmakers and public-health officials of the disease to try to work toward an eventual cure. As WorldNetDaily...

Moregellons Makes Your Skin Crawl With Threadlike Strings Coming Out Of Sores (CBS) LOS ANGELES It's a "mystery” straight out of the "X-Files." But those who suffer from it will tell you it's painfully real. Imagine sweating "beads” of a *black tar- like substance" -- or pulling colored threadlike strings from sores all over your body. Worst of all... not only are doctors unsure of what it is, many tell patients they're making it all up. The disease literally makes your skin feel like it's crawling-- but here's the real scary part for us. Out of the entire country, the...

CBS) LOS ANGELES It's a "mystery” straight out of the "X-Files." But those who suffer from it will tell you it's painfully real. Imagine sweating "beads” of a *black tar- like substance" -- or pulling colored threadlike strings from sores all over your body. Worst of all... not only are doctors unsure of what it is, many tell patients they're making it all up. The disease literally makes your skin feel like it's crawling-- but here's the real scary part for us. Out of the entire country, the L.A. area has the highest percentage of cases. According to some patients:...

To the concern of medical professionals already preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic, a mysterious disease first documented 300 years ago is spreading throughout South Texas. Morgellons disease has not been known to kill and it doesn't appear to be contagious – it's the disease's horrible symptoms that worry doctors. "These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who has treated a majority of Morgellons patients, told the San Antonio Express-News. Patients infected with the disease get lesions that never heal.

The mystery rash and illness that has plagued thousands of people exposed to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina may have several names, and one of them is Parvovirus B-19. The disease is nicknamed “Katrina Rash” and the “New Orleans Crud,” and has affected at least three Ruston-area first-responders who went to New Orleans to help in rescue and recovery efforts. A Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s Deputy, an Emergency Medical Technician and a Louisiana State Trooper all came down with variations of the ailment. Missy Staples, a licensed vocational nurse from Glasgow, Ky., became ill after caring for a patient with similar...

Turkey diagnoses human bird flu At least two people in eastern Turkey have tested positive for the deadly human strain of bird flu, the country's health minister has said. A 14-year-old boy who died last weekend did have the disease, Recep Akdag said, contradicting earlier statements. The boy's sister, who is seriously ill in hospital, also tested positive. A third sibling has symptoms of bird flu. Experts are examining whether the boy died of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, which has killed dozens in Asia. The boy, named as Mehmet Ali Kocyigit, died on Sunday in the city...

Pafford Ambulance Service EMT Greg Coleman watched the polluted water of a flooded New Orleans stain, rust and generally erode the metal slide action of his Glock handgun. Now the toxic water is threatening his health, as well as other Ruston-area first-responders who answered medical and law enforcement calls for assistance after back-to-back hurricanes earlier this year that may have changed Louisiana’s Crescent City and other Gulf Coast parishes forever. The paramedic recalls treating victims who trudged waist- and chest-deep through the overflow of Lake Ponchatrain with some of the same symptoms that now have him seeking medical help. “I...

Turkish boy's death not bird flu Officials have been taking precautions in Turkey A 14-year-old Turkish boy who died at the weekend was not killed by bird flu, the country's health ministry says. The boy was initially feared to have died from the same virus that has killed more than 70 people in Asia. Three of his siblings, who were also taken ill, have also tested negative for the disease, while tests on two others have still not been returned. It is still not clear what did kill Mehmet Ali Kocyigit, officials said. "The disease is not caused by bird...

VOLGOGORAD, October 30 (Itar-Tass) -- One hundred and ten children have been taken to Volgograd hospitals with a hitherto unidentified infection, a hospital source told Itar-Tass. Their condition is serious but not critical. Doctors think that the rate will keep growing, but the regional education committee thinks it will go on decline. The principal of the Leader boarding school refused from hospitalization. Chairman of the regional education committee Viktor Bespalov said the boarding school would continue classes on Monday, but only a half of 282 students seem to be able to attend.

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Among the casualties treated aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort in the early weeks of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a civilian shot multiple times while caught in crossfire. The patient was seriously wounded, but stabilized after emergency surgery. But 24 hours later, the Iraqi was dead after bleeding uncontrollably from his wounds, his blood poisoned by an unknown infection that didn't respond to antibiotics. Within a week, about a quarter of the injured troops on the ship in the Persian Gulf had the same bacteria. Soon, another Iraqi in the intensive care unit died....

ORONTO - A deadly outbreak of a respiratory illness at a Toronto nursing home for the elderly has claimed six more lives, raising the death toll to 16, health officials said Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT The cause of the outbreak at the Seven Oaks Home for the Aged remains unknown, although officials insisted the situation was under control. Thirty-eight people remained hospitalized with the illness, and officials fear many of them are too frail to fully recover. Another 88 residents, employees and visitors have been affected. Public health officials have said it may never be possible to determine the exact type of...

Doctors "the patients fall ill and die within 2-3 days" 10 dead - 40+ hospitilized 80+ sick. Unknown illness in Toronto.

TORONTO (AP) An unknown respiratory illness has struck an Ontario nursing home, killing six elderly patients — including two announced Monday — and infecting at least 79 residents, employees and visitors. Toronto public health officials are monitoring 170 people connected to Seven Oaks Home for the Aged in Scarborough, a bedroom community just east of Toronto, including families and children who attend a day-care center in the building. Though Seven Oaks is not under quarantine, no visitors have been allowed for several days. The overnight deaths of two women, aged 95 and 79, brought to six the number of people...

PARIS (AP) - President Jacques Chirac skipped a weekly Cabinet meeting Wednesday for the first time since taking office in 1995, as authorities kept France in suspense for a fifth full day about what exactly ails the hospitalized 72-year-old leader. Officials have cryptically referred to Chirac's illness as "a small vascular accident" that affected his vision in one eye. With little to go on, doctors not involved in Chirac's treatment suggest a range of possible problems from minor - a ruptured blood vessel in a retina - to serious - a stroke. Officials of the presidential Elysee Palace have worked...

Ports ordered to be on the alert for strange diseases http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02HEA020805 (02-08-2005) HA NOI — The Ministry of Health is asking personnel at the nation’s entry points, such as airports, bordergates and harbours, to be on the alert for the penetration of strange diseases into Viet Nam. All persons with a fever upon entering the country will be quarantined and given timely medical treatment, according to deputy health minister Trinh Quan Huan. Huan said a strange disease transmitted from swine that occurred recently in China had not yet appeared in Viet Nam. "We have seen encephalitis B infections pass from...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2005--Hundreds of U.S. soldiers have been infected with a potentially deadly drug resistant bacteria, Acinetobacter baumannii, that apparently originated in Iraqi soil, according to Forbes.com Medical & Science Writer Matthew Herper. Visit www.forbes.com for this exclusive report, "The Iraq Infection." According to Herper's report, "most of the victims are relatively young troops who were injured by the land mines, mortars and suicide bombs that have permeated the Iraq conflict." While no active duty soldiers have died from the infection, five deaths did occur among extremely sick patients who were in the same hospitals as the injured...

BEIJING --An unidentified illness has killed 17 farmers and sickened 41 in southwestern China after they butchered sick pigs or sheep, China's official news agency said Sunday. Those affected had symptoms including high fever, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, and "became comatose later with bruises under the skin," Xinhua news agency said. Over the past four weeks, 58 people from areas around the cities of Ziyang and Neijiang in China's southwestern Sichuan province were hospitalized with such symptoms, Xinhua said. Seventeen of those hospitalized have died, while 12 are in critical condition, 27 are stable and two have recovered, it said....

He served his country as an ideal soldier and became a disabled veteran along the way. So what is the Army doing calling him back just days before his term of service expires? Jason Cordova was an ideal military recruit. In 1993, the Buffalo, NY native enrolled at Canisius College, a Jesuit institution with a strong Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program that feeds the U.S. Army officers in the Buffalo area. He studied military communications, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. Upon his graduation in 1997, Cordova was upgraded to a Communications Commander with the Army Special Forces...

Fort Bragg Officer's Hiccups, Death A Mystery POSTED: 7:31 pm EST March 26, 2005 FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- The family of a Fort Bragg officer recently back from Iraq said Capt. Terrance Wright seemed to hiccup almost constantly for weeks before he died earlier this month. The Army said Wright died of an unknown illness shortly after returning from Iraq in February. His body was found in a Fayetteville motel room on March 2. Wright's mother, Sandra Wright, and an aunt, Karen Wright, said Wright had been a healthy 33-year-old before he deployed to Iraq in November. It was his second...

The Ebola-like mystery ailment that has killed at least 39 people in Angola over the past three months is targeting primarily children under 5, the U.N. health agency said Friday. While the disease in Angola's northern province of Uige has still not been identified, health officials believe the illness is an acute hemorrhagic fever related to the Ebola virus, said Dick Thompson, spokesman for the World Health Organization. But unlike Ebola, which tends to predominantly affect the adult population, four out of five cases of this new ailment have been children, Thompson said. "With Ebola, the age distribution is generally...

THE number of people affected by a mystery leak at Melbourne Airport has risen to 53. The Virgin Blue and Regional Express terminal at Melbourne Airport was evacuated about 10.10am (AEDT) today, two hours after the initial report that six people had fallen ill because of the leak. Metropolitan Ambulance spokesman James Howe said 45 people had been taken to hospital following the leak, with many suffering dizziness, vomiting, nausea and respiratory problems. Thirty-five people had since been released from hospital while eight others were treated at the scene. Melbourne airport fire service spokesman Brett Smiley said that the source...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The mysterious death of a third soldier with North Carolina ties is raising questions. All three died from flu-like symptoms after returning from overseas deployments. Clay Garton Sgt. Clay Garton's family says the Army veteran exhibited flu-like symptoms after returning from overseas deployments.

Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko's mystery illness was caused by poisoning, his Vienna doctors say. The doctors said extensive tests showed a form of dioxin had been used, leaving Mr Yushchenko's face disfigured. Mr Yushchenko was taken ill in September as he campaigned for the Ukrainian presidency. Mr Yushchenko's supporters staged mass demonstrations to protest against election fraud, and the second round is now being re-run on 26 December. Published: 2004/12/11 14:25:50 GMT © BBC MMIV

Mystery disease ‘not typical of any poison’ By ABRAM KATZ, Science Editor 12/09/2004 Amidst the political turmoil in Ukraine pitting a supposedly corrupt candidate against a Western-style reformer in a contested election, is a mysterious disfiguring disease. Only one person has it so far -- opposition leader Viktor A. Yushchenko -- prompting speculation among his sup-porters that the disease is really a sign of poisoning by his opponents. The various and unusual symptoms could be caused by a subtle secret chemical, Connecticut toxicologists said. But from what little medical evidence is available, the doctors said there is no clear indication...

When the once-robust, telegenic man was wheeled in through the sliding glass doors of the plush Rudolfinerhaus hospital in early September, he was severely ill, conscious but groggy and complaining of terrible abdominal pain. Multiple blood tests were abnormal, doctors here say; his skin was covered with odd-looking lesions; his digestive tract was dotted with ulcers from top to bottom. Europe's most illustrious doctors were stumped; the patient's many symptoms defied a unifying diagnosis. Eight days later, Viktor A. Yushchenko, Ukraine's opposition leader, checked out against medical advice, determined to return to the business of winning the presidential election in...

LODI, N.J. -- Public schools in this Bergen County community of 24,000 canceled classes for Thursday after more than two dozen youngsters were taken to the hospital with a mysterious skin rash. The outbreak was discovered Wednesday afternoon among youngsters and adults attending an after-school program at the Boys and Girls Club of Lodi. Twenty-nine people were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where they were released after being evaluated and taking showers, said hospital spokeswoman Ann Marie Campbell. "There have been no severe reactions or respiratory problems of any kind," Campbell said. State and local health officials could not...

Seven children die as mystery virus hits Nam January 08 2004 at 01:39PM Hanoi - Seven children aged between nine months and 12 have died from a mysterious respiratory disease in the Vietnamese capital, but health officials have ruled out Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome as the cause, state media said on Thursday. Since mid-October, twelve children have been admitted to Hanoi's Central Paediatric Hospital with a high fever and a chesty cough. Their symptoms have not reacted to antibiotics. Hospital doctors refused to comment Thursday on the illness, but the Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper quoted Professor Hoang Thuy Long, director...

My nephew is currently stationed in Iraq, possibly somewhere in Baghdad. He can't tell us where exactly. He got there at the end of May (on his birthday). Recently, he has been experiencing loss of hair & fingernails. Does anyone know or have any information as to what may be causing this? This is also happening to some of the other guys in his unit. They suspect it is from the Anthrax shots they received before being deployed. Any information anyone may have on this will be greatly appreciated.

Mystery blood clots felling U.S. troops By Mark Benjamin Investigations Editor Published 10/6/2003 12:41 PMView printer-friendly version WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Unexplained blood clots are among the reasons a number of U.S. soldiers in Operation Iraqi Freedom have died from sudden illnesses, an investigation by United Press International has found. In addition to NBC News Correspondent David Bloom, who died in April of a blood clot in his lung after collapsing south of Baghdad, the Pentagon has told families that blood clots caused two soldiers to collapse and die. At least eight other soldiers have also collapsed and died...

Mystery blood clots kill U.S. troops Monday 06-Oct-2003 8:58PM Story from United Press International Copyright 2003 by United Press International (via ClariNet) WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Several U.S. soldiers in the Iraqi war died from sudden illnesses and a United Press International probe shows those were triggered by unexplained blood clots. The Pentagon says blood clots caused two soldiers to collapse and die. At least eight other soldiers have also collapsed and died from what the military has described as non-combat-related causes. NBC reporter David Bloom also died of a blood clot in his lung after collapsing near Baghdad....

Lui, southern Sudan Ten-year-old Susannah Jackson is dying of what may be the world's newest and oddest disease - an illness so rare and mysterious that science has not yet come up with an official name for it. Sitting outside her family's mud hut, near the small town of Lui, Susannah is gripped by a series of brain seizures which force her neck to arch forwards, down, and then up again. No wonder people in this isolated corner of southern Sudan call it "nodding disease." "We have no clue as what is causing this. It's like a detective novel and...

Since Persian Gulf War II began about 6,000 soldiers have been shipped home for recovery. Of these, 1,200 were wounded in combat. Many of the others consider themselves part of an army of "walking dead" – troops who appear to be so physically and mentally exhausted that the military has no recourse but to discharge them. Why they are ill has become a matter of intense debate inside the Pentagon. Some claim a series of anthrax and smallpox vaccinations made them so gravely ill that they have trouble breathing or sleeping and have experienced a loss of memory. Others have...

Lt. Col. Janice M. Rusnak, recently arrived at the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, for a tour as infectious-diseases specialist, walked into the third-floor intensive care unit. She didn't know the name of the patient she wanted to see. But she had what she considered a fairly good description. Can you point me to the soldier from Iraq who's on a ventilator? she asked a nurse. The one with acute respiratory distress syndrome.What's clear so far is this: Since early March, about 100 soldiers deployed to the Persian Gulf region and Central Asia have contracted pneumonia. About 30 have...

Thu September 11, 2003 06:34 PM ET By Paul Simao ATLANTA (Reuters) - The U.S. Army said on Thursday it did not know what had caused an outbreak of a severe type of pneumonia that killed two soldiers serving in Iraq and caused 17 on duty in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa to be hospitalized. The illnesses, which were reported in a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, occurred between March and August in a group of full-time active duty personnel and reservists deployed in Iraq, Kuwait, Djibouti, Qatar and Uzbekistan....

Most of the soldiers in and around Iraq with unexplained, severe pneumonia had taken up smoking shortly before falling ill, military medical authorities said Tuesday. The military is investigating 19 cases of severe pneumonia since March, including two fatalities. Four of those cases were linked to bacterial infections. Of the remaining 15, 10 patients, including the two who died, had elevated levels of a certain type of white blood cells. Nine of the 10 reported they had started smoking recently, said Col. Bob DeFraites, a top Army medical officer. It's unclear whether smoking caused or contributed to the pneumonia, but...

WASHINGTON - Most of the soldiers in and around Iraq with unexplained, severe pneumonia had taken up smoking shortly before falling ill, military medical authorities said Tuesday. The military is investigating 19 cases of severe pneumonia since March, including two fatalities. Four of those cases were linked to bacterial infections. Of the remaining 15, 10 patients, including the two who died, had elevated levels of a certain type of white blood cells. Nine of the 10 reported they had started smoking recently, said Col. Bob DeFraites, a top Army medical officer. It's unclear whether smoking caused or contributed to the...

Army medical teams are investigating why some service members who became infected with pneumonia in Southwest Asia had signs of Eosinophilla and others didn’t. Of the 19 serious cases diagnosed since March 1, 17 were soldiers. One Marine and sailor have also been diagnosed. Only one woman has been diagnosed with serious pneumonia. Eosinophils are white blood cells known to fight certain infections, especially hay fever and allergies, a press release from the U.S. Army Surgeon General's office said. Concerned about the number of cases, the surgeon general sent two Epidemiological Consultation teams to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, and...