Balkans Syndrome is a recent term that has been widely used in the media to describe a heterogenous group of medical conditions that presented in soldiers following deployment on military operations to the former Yugoslavia and its neighbouring countries.
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12.01.2002 · Trauma caused by forced expulsion from home in a war-ravaged region substantially altered the psychological, hormonal, and immune responses in ...
There is a growing number of reports that the health disorders of NATO soldiers may be attributed to weapons containing depleted uranium. However, the rationale ...
Depleted uranium (DU), a low-level radioactive waste product of the enrichment of natural uranium with U-235 for the reactor fuel or nuclear weapons, has been ...
The issue has grown in importance in the Republic of Serbia after increased rates of morbidity and mortality from malignancies since the 1999 NATO aggression ...
Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a form of interstitial nephritis causing kidney failure. It was first identified in the 1920s among several small, ...
03.01.2001 · The six Italians who have died since returning from the Balkans all had leukaemia. The latest was Salvatore Carbonaro, 24, from Sicily, who died ...
09.01.2001 · On impact, it leaves a cloud of low-level radioactive dust, but the United States has always insisted it poses no health risk. Europe ...
If Kosovo were somewhere else in Europe, there is no doubt that the forecasts would be less gloomy. Any mention of the Balkans has an ominous association of ...
06.01.2001 · * Iraqi authorities blame thousands of civilian cancer deaths and deformities in babies on contamination by Western depleted-uranium weapons.