DISEASE AND NON-BATTLE INJURY RATES DURING DESERT SHIELD/STORM

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      solar injury.
     
      6, Psychiatric Illnesses (PSY): depression,  situational
      reactions,  anxiety, neuroses, psychotic reactions, suicide
      attempts substance abuse.
     
      7. Non-battle Injuries (NBI): fractures,  sprains,
      contusions, lacerations , abrasions, animal bites, snake bites.
     
     8. Medical Illnesses (MED ILL): cardiorespiratory problems
     such as chest pain, hypertension, neurological problems such as
     headaches, convulsions, syncopal episodes.
     
     9. Special categories (SPEC CAT): These were reported as a
     total figure and individually by each MTF each week. Note that
     this data is tabulated in the attachments by theater average but
     not by unit and reporting week. This was done because the 108
     pages that would be required to tabulate the data by unit and
     week would not add significant information to this report.
     
     a. diarrheal disease (two or more loose stools per day
     recorded also as gastrointestinal illness)
     b. sandfly fever
     c. Hepatitis A
     d. dengue fever
     e. Crimean - Congo hemorrhagic fever
     f. malaria
     g. leishmaniasis
     h. schistosomiasis
     i. Q-fever
     j. helminth diseases
     k. spirochetal disease (leptospirosis, relapsing fever)
     I. sexually transmitted disease
     m. meningococcal meningitis
     n. typhus
     o. plague
     p. rabies
     q. brucellosis
     r. toxoplasmosis
     s. trachoma
     t anthrax
     u. botulism
     v, typhoid
     
     V. DATA REPORTED AND INTERPRETATION.
     
      1. The attached charts display the case rate per 1000 for
     each syndrome, by week, for each deployed MTF. Also given is the
     theater-wide weekly average rate of all MTFs for each syndrome.
     The dates on these charts are the closing dates of  each reporting
     week (the reporting week ran from Sunday to Saturday).
     

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