Depleted uranium

[Guest guest]

Dr. Sandra Lance, D.C.,

I am not an expert on depleted uranium, just a person that is interested.

I can only tell you what I have read

 

Can Depleted Uranium

1. I understand that the American soldier that is being exposed to Depleted

Uranium

in Iraq is having his/her gonads exposed to radiation and therefore more

likely to have cancer alterations to their DNA and

birth defects in the offspring. Can, for example, the semen of returned

soldiers cause the females with whom they copulate

to have cancer or any other type of health care impact being exposed to

a soldier that has been exposed to depleted

Uranium?

Karen: I have read from several sources that the wives of soldiers exposed to

DU and their future children often have serious health problems and birth

defects. I have not read of any instances of children born before the parent's

exposure to DU or other people that are around the soldier having any problems.

It is apparently in the semen.

 

2. Are persons who are not sexually active with returning Iraq soldiers such

as family members in close physical contact and

eating with the same utensils and their toothbrushes in near proximity,

etc. at any health risk because of any radiation or

biochemical exposure while in Iraq?

 

Karen: I haven't read of any problems such as this.

 

3. Are persons who are in social, work, church, or any public exposure to

soldiers returning from Iraq who have been

exposed to biochemical agents and radiation at any health risk from

contact?

 

Karen: I am not an expert, but I have not heard of this.

 

4. Does exposure to depleted uranium and/or biochemical agents cause

symptoms that might be diagnosed as " mental illness "

that would be treated with Selective Serotonin Reinuptake Inhibitors

(SSRI-antidepressents, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Prozac, etc.)

that might have the side effect of suicide as reported in the

Congressional hearings in Nov. that the FDA now admits is

cauing CHILDREN to commit suicide but has not taken off the market?

 

Karen: I would sure think that having your health destroyed by your

government could lead to depression and other mental problems and lead to

suicide in

some people. There is a high rate of suicide among soldiers in Iraq which I

would think would not just be from DU but also from the psychological affects of

killing civilians and wounding young children.