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...other war, they would be dead, having bled to death on the battlefield or died in a hospital from wounds so grievous that their armor could not protect them and the doctors could not save them. In World War II, 1 in 3 wounded soldiers died; in Vietnam, 1 in 4. In the Iraq war, the rate is 1 in 8. As of last week, just over 1,500 U.S. military personnel had died in Iraq and 11,285 had been wounded. The Pentagon does not keep counts of dead or wounded Iraqis. Human-rights groups and academics have tried...
...That's why international experts are now nervously scrutinizing the poultry flocks of Cambodia where birds and ducks are routinely raised in close proximity to human living quarters and sold live at unhygienic wet markets. In neighboring countries Thailand and Vietnam, such conditions led to the stubborn spread of bird flu, first among poultry, then in a handful of human beings. So far, Cambodia hasn't reported any major outbreaks, but Dr. Guan Yi, an avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong, fears it may already be entrenched there. "This virus is not just endemic in Vietnam...
...virus does not yet transmit easily from person to person, but recent research suggests that human infections may be more common than previously believed. The Feb. 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reported that one person in Vietnam thought to have died of encephalitis last spring was actually infected with bird flu. The case was misdiagnosed because the patient did not show the respiratory symptoms typical of avian flu. Instead, the virus attacked the brain and the patient fell into a coma before dying. "We must have been missing cases," says Dr. Jeremy Farrar...
Retired U.S. Navy Commander Rudy Asercion wasn't sure what he might find when he rummaged through the swords, guns and medals in the trophy room of San Francisco's War Memorial Veterans Building last summer. But the 63-year-old Vietnam War veteran knew what he was looking for: exhibits for a local ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of General Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines at the close of World War II. Instead, the third-generation Philippine-American may have discovered something of enormous historical value: a brittle, stained satin flag that the Philippine National Historical Institute...
Where has bird flu been found so far? Cases of the most powerful form of avian flu, caused by the H5N1 virus, have been reported in Hong Kong, China, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam...