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  • DEVELOPING: New Study Shows Parasite Killing Vietnam Veterans

    11/22/2017 5:43:44 PM PST · by rdl6989 · 92 replies
    alboenews.net ^ | November 21, 2017
    A new study by the VA is showing that a parasite from the jungles of Vietnam may be slowly killing Vietnam War veterans. The study was conducted using blood samples of the veterans. The VA issued a study this spring to look at the connection between liver flukes that were ingested through undercooked fish and a rare bile duct cancer.
  • VA study shows parasite from Vietnam may be killing vets

    11/22/2017 8:59:27 AM PST · by blam · 46 replies
    Fox News ^ | 11-22-2017
    Veterans returned to the U.S. after fighting in the jungles of Vietnam a half century ago, but hundreds of them may be dying from a silent bullet — a slow-killing parasite living in the men decades after the war, a new study revealed. Liver flukes, parasites that infect a human when raw or undercooked fish is eaten, are being investigated as the cause of a rare bile duct cancer among veterans who served in the Vietnam War. It could take years for symptoms to show up, but when they do, the host is left with tremendous pain and given just...
  • Amnesty Criticizes Sheriff's Use of Stun Belt. (Lefty Peaceniks Blow CHunks!!!!)

    10/03/2003 6:57:47 AM PDT · by .cnI redruM · 7 replies · 230+ views
    Washington Post ^ | Thursday, October 2, 2003 | By Josh White
    Amnesty International has chastised the Prince William County Sheriff's Office for its recent use of a stun belt against sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad, saying that use of the belt is akin to torture and violates international law. In a letter to Sheriff E. Lee Stoffregen III (D) dated Sept. 22, the human rights advocacy group calls on the sheriff to get rid of the stun belts and sharply criticizes the use of the device on Muhammad during a visit to Prince William Hospital on Aug. 22. During that visit, Muhammad was shocked by the device after he refused to...