Word: blanck
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...latest guess focuses on heavy industrial pollution around the Saudi city of Jubail, where many of the ailing troops were deployed. "I think we are dealing with, in some groups, a specific exposure to some kind of industrial chemical," said Major General Ronald Blanck, commander of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. That exposure may, in turn, have sensitized soldiers to the degree that their bodies can no longer tolerate minute, normally harmless amounts of environmental toxins...