25, December 2017
Flu Shots for US troops in Cameroon 0
The soldiers of 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, are serving in a support role for the Cameroon military’s fight against the violent extremist organization Boko Haram.
However, “Warriors” of 1-87 IN also have to beware of foes that take the form of sicknesses or diseases like malaria or the flu.
The flu vaccination is an annual Army requirement that helps control this common contagious adversary according to Capt. Joshua Randles, the 1-87 IN physician assistant and native of Argyle, New York.
“Flu vaccination reduces the chance of getting influenza,” said Randles, “and if a Soldier happens to get influenza, the vaccine is shown to reduce the severity of the illness.”
“This is important in an austere environment where evacuation may take days,” Randles said.
All vaccinations and medicines arrive here on military flights that rotate in and out of this region. However, flights may become delayed or assigned to other missions causing a lull in deliveries.
As a result, 10th Mountain soldiers here did not receive the vaccinations until December 20.
“We have been waiting for about six weeks for the vaccinations,” said Sgt. Clayton Young, 1-87 IN medic from Rochester, New York.
The night the vaccinations arrived, soldiers lined up to receive their flu shot.
The Warrior medic team was able to vaccinate 120 soldiers in about three hours inoculating a significant number of the service members in need of the flu shot.
Source: dvidshub
25, December 2017
Moscow: Bus drives into pedestrian underpass, kills 5 0
Five people were killed when a city bus ploughed into a pedestrian underpass in western Moscow on Monday, traffic police said.
“A bus drove into a pedestrian underpass,” a traffic police spokesman, Artyom Kolesnikov, told AFP.
“According to preliminary information, five people died.”
There were also unconfirmed reports that some 15 people had been injured.
Footage broadcast on national television showed a bus driving down the stairs, running over several pedestrians.
The incident happened on Kutuzovsky Avenue, near the Slavyansky Bulvar metro station in the western part of the Russian capital.
It was not immediately clear what caused the accident but Russian news agencies said that the driver had been detained.
The Interfax news agency said investigators were looking into whether the incident had occurred as a result of a technical fault with the bus.
“There are dead and wounded,” tweeted Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin. “We are providing emergency aid,” he said, offering condolences to families of the victims.
(Source: Agencies)