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Outbreak Sickens Soldiers
10 February 2012
The Moscow Times
One soldier has died and 42 more were hospitalized with pneumonia in the Krasnoyarsk region, prompting speculation that the temperature inside the soldiers' barracks was kept too low.
Ivan Permitin, an 18-year-old private stationed in the Krasnoyarsk region town of Uzhur, died of septic shock Tuesday after being hospitalized, RIA-Novosti reported. Forty-two others in the unit were also hospitalized, Kommersant-FM reported Wednesday.
A Defense Ministry spokesperson told Kommersant-FM that the outbreak is due to a virus, citing doctors' evaluations of the afflicted military men.
But a Krasnoyarsk region deputy told the radio station that there was reason to believe the conditions in the soldiers' barracks were to blame for the flare-up...
Outbreak Sickens Soldiers
10 February 2012
The Moscow Times
One soldier has died and 42 more were hospitalized with pneumonia in the Krasnoyarsk region, prompting speculation that the temperature inside the soldiers' barracks was kept too low.
Ivan Permitin, an 18-year-old private stationed in the Krasnoyarsk region town of Uzhur, died of septic shock Tuesday after being hospitalized, RIA-Novosti reported. Forty-two others in the unit were also hospitalized, Kommersant-FM reported Wednesday.
A Defense Ministry spokesperson told Kommersant-FM that the outbreak is due to a virus, citing doctors' evaluations of the afflicted military men.
But a Krasnoyarsk region deputy told the radio station that there was reason to believe the conditions in the soldiers' barracks were to blame for the flare-up...