DU Health Issues

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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RIGHTS:
Evidence Grows Against Depleted Uranium Weapons

Katherine Stapp
Inter Press Service

Washington's insistence that depleted uranium (DU) munitions are not
toxic has been undermined by revelations that four U.S. soldiers
recently home from Iraq are suffering from radiation poisoning.

NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - A by-product of the uranium enrichment process,
DU is prized by the military for its use in ammunition that can punch
through walls and armoured tanks. The main problem, experts say, is that
DU munitions vaporise on contact, generating dust that is easily inhaled
into the lungs.

Several months ago a dozen soldiers from the National Guard's 442nd Military
Police Company, stationed south of Baghdad, began suffering from dizziness,
diarrhoea, blurred vision and other symptoms.  Independent tests carried out by
a New York newspaper found that four had high levels of depleted uranium in
their systems.

The news does not come as a surprise for doctors working in parts of the
world that have been bombarded with DU weaponry, such as Iraq,
Afghanistan and the Balkans.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23515

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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