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Iran missile strike: 50 US troops now diagnosed with brain injuries [View all]
Source: Reuters
Iran missile strike: 50 US troops now diagnosed with brain injuries
Reuters
Wed 29 Jan 2020 01.37 GMT
The Pentagon said on Tuesday 50 US service members were now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, 16 more than the military had previously announced.
Donald Trump and other top officials initially said Iran’s 8 January attack had not killed or injured any US service members.
“As of today, 50 US service members have been diagnosed” with traumatic brain injury, the Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Campbell said in a statement about injuries in the attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq.
Symptoms of concussive injuries include headaches, dizziness, sensitivity to light and nausea.
Thirty-one of the 50 were treated in Iraq and returned to duty, including 15 of those diagnosed most recently, Campbell said.
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Reuters
Wed 29 Jan 2020 01.37 GMT
The Pentagon said on Tuesday 50 US service members were now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, 16 more than the military had previously announced.
Donald Trump and other top officials initially said Iran’s 8 January attack had not killed or injured any US service members.
“As of today, 50 US service members have been diagnosed” with traumatic brain injury, the Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Campbell said in a statement about injuries in the attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq.
Symptoms of concussive injuries include headaches, dizziness, sensitivity to light and nausea.
Thirty-one of the 50 were treated in Iraq and returned to duty, including 15 of those diagnosed most recently, Campbell said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/28/us-troops-iran-brain-injury-attack-iraq
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