Student nurse's study raising awareness of illnesses connected to burn pits
STARS AND STRIPES
By DONITA NAYLOR | The Providence Journal | Published: November 19, 2018
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Tribune News Service) — At first, Chelsey Poisson misunderstood what her boyfriend meant when he told her a lot of his friends from Iraq have died.
She thought he meant in the war. "No," he said. "They died when they came home."
Of the 30 men in his platoon, Kyle Simoni told Poisson, five have died since they left Iraq in 2008. Half the rest, including him, have issues such as sleep apnea, Crohn's disease, tumors, vitamin D deficiencies or endocrine problems, such as an inability to produce testosterone. One went through surgery to reconstruct his entire nasal cavity.
https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/student-nurse-s-study-raising-awareness-of-illnesses-connected-to-burn-pits-1.557223
