U.S. Marines burn human waste as they clean their lavatories at the Musa Qala District Center base, Jan. 17, 2011. (Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP/Getty Images)
Military Burn Pits: 'Inconclusive' Evidence It Is Unhealthy -- ABC News
Ret. Spc. Edward Adams may be one of the first soldiers whose medical chart indicates by a military physician that his lung disease was caused by toxins inhaled through open burn pits while deployed in Iraq.
From July 2006 to October 2007, Adams, 35, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., served as an avionics repair technician on Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. While on base, Adams said he inhaled thick plumes of smoke from open pits that regularly burned material and human waste, ammunition, debris and chemicals.
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More News On Hazardous Wastes And Burn Pits
Burn Pit Study Inconclusive on Health Effects -- Military.com/Stars and Stripes
Study: Health effects from military burn pits inconclusive -- USA Today
Study on ‘Burn Pits’ Cites Inadequate Evidence of Health Effects -- New York Times
Not Enough Data to Link Pollution to Ill Troops -- New York Times
More data needed on burn pits, report says -- Marine Times
What’s Choking U.S. Troop? Feds Have No Idea -- Danger Room
Report: Burn Pits Can’t Be Conclusively Linked to Health Consequences -- Wall Street Journal
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