"Lucky War": Third Army in Desert Storm.

1 Vectors and War - " Desert Storm

The awesome technological marvels of laser-guided munitions and rocketry riveted everyone's attention during the recent Persian Gulf War. Yet, an aspect of the war that received comparatively little media attention was the constant battle waged against potential disease vectors by preventive medicine personnel from the coalition forces. The extraordinarily small number of casualties suffered in...

BioCode: Third time lucky?

Fifteen year ago a draft BioCode was presented to the taxonomic community (Greuter et al. 1996). There is now a new version, published in Taxon (Greuter et al. 2011) and available online on the International Committee on Biological Nomenclature website as well as that of the International Commision for Zoological Nomenclature. Has the BioCode matured since it was last put forward? Was it ahead ...

Helicobacter pylori infection in Desert Storm troops.

To determine whether military personnel deployed outside the United States are at increased risk of Helicobacter pylori infection, we evaluated U.S. Army personnel who served in the Persian Gulf from August 1990 to April 1991. Of 204 subjects from whom paired predeployment and postdeployment serum specimens were obtained, 76 (37%) were seropositive for IgG antibody to H. pylori before deploymen...

The Third World War?

Army nursing service goes to war.

The first contingent of New Zealand Army Nursing Service sisters, with their Matron-in-Chief Hester Maclean (seated centre, left of the captain), en route to the war, on the Rotorua, in May 1915. Hester Maclean I n 1914, Hester Maclean was a highly influential New Zealand nursing leader – assistant inspector general of hospitals, matron-in-chief of a proposed army nursing service, and owner and...