Roughly one-third of 33 recent US combat casualties evacuated from the Middle East were carrying bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics, the Joint Staff’s top medical officer said Monday, offering an early warning about a military threat that’s already complicating the recoveries of wounded troops in Ukraine and is projected to worsen without significant medical advances.
Only one of those US troops developed an active infection, Maj. Gen. Clinton Murray, the Joint Staff surgeon and an infectious disease physician, said at a military medical symposium in Florida. The others were “colonized,” meaning the bacteria were present on or in…
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