The burqas shouldn't be a public health issue as long as infrastructure allows them to be kept clean.
War does cause serious global public health issues. Trying to keep traumatic battlefied or IED injuries sterile is impossible.
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Higgins, P.G.; Kniel, M.; Rojak, S.; Balczun, C.; Rohde, H.; Frickmann, H.; Hagen, R.M. Molecular Epidemiology of Carbapenem-Resistant
Acinetobacter baumannii Strains Isolated at the German Military Field Laboratory in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan.
Microorganisms 2021,
9, 2229.
https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9112229
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Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has been identified as a considerable menace for traumatic wounds associated with international wars and crises [
1,
2]. This also applies to the recent military conflict in Afghanistan, in which German soldiers participated for nearly 20 years, from 2002 until 2021.
Most reports on war trauma-associated A. baumannii infections or colonization from the recent Afghanistan conflict were, however, provided by the medical services of the USA and Canada [
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11]. As early as 2004, a report on a limited number of A. baumannii-associated bloodstream infections associated with Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan was published [
3]. In 2006, carbapenem-resistant isolates were still reported to be acquired predominantly in Iraq and less frequently in Afghanistan [
4]. One year later, however, Canadian health officials published warnings about the risk of spreading multidrug-resistant A. baumannii strains imported into Canadian hospitals from Afghan battlefields [
5]. Subsequently, in 2008, the US Armed Forces Medical Service reported an increased frequency of A. baumannii isolates associated with osteomyelitis in war-injured soldiers fighting for the OEF mission [
6], and in the same year, an increased acquisition risk of resistant A. baumannii isolates at OEF deployment sites was documented [
7]. Together with Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae, A. baumannii accounted for nosocomial infection rates of 2–4% in injured patients from the OEF mission [
8], and a risk of spreading resistance was identified. However, as reported in 2011, the colonization rate with A. baumannii was highest at the beginning of the mission and declined in the following years [
9]. Nevertheless, the relevance of resistant or even multidrug-resistant A. baumannii strains in the wounds of war-injured US trauma patients remained considerable, accounting for 38.6% of the registered infections due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria [
10]. In a recent study on trauma-related infections in US soldiers, Acinetobacter spp. were isolated from 8.7% of skin and soft tissue infections, 9.0% of bloodstream infections, and 11.0% of osteomyelitis cases, [
11]. Consequently, research on substances potentially inactivating A. baumannii in traumatic war injuries is ongoing [
12].
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