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I was guessing that this was going to be about lead in the water, but instead it’s about airborne lead from ammunition. Since this seems like nothing new, I won
by snazz 8y ago
I was guessing that this was going to be about lead in the water, but instead it’s about airborne lead from ammunition. Since this seems like nothing new, I wonder if there any undiagnosed historical cases as well.
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- megous 8y agoLead contamintaion as a result of high use of lead and other metals (like mercury) during war (and after) is certainly a known and studied thing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3464374/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3464374/ So it wouldn't surprise me if many soldiers would be affected too.
- tyingq 8y agoI recall reading something similar about the depleted uranium rounds that A10s and other weapons dumped all over the middle east.
- xnyan 8y agoNot just A10s but bunker busters and all kinds of other munitions where you need the hardest metal shell material that is practically available in quantity. They get shot deep in the earth and leach metals into the soil and thus the plant and animal life and it's already a problem with some crops in the middle east.
- PaulHoule 8y agoNote that uranium is toxic in the same way lead and mercury are, but it is intermediate in potency. Uranium is probably more harmful in terms of heavy metal poisoning than it is in terms of radioactivity.