Original sentence: " The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent, except for Viet Nam which was 10 percent."Cancer appears to have increased between seven and 10 times and deformities between four and six times," according to the UN subcommission cited above.(Radioactive particles absorbed into the body are in general far more dangerous that the same radiation level outside the body, due to their immediate proximity to delicate structures such as DNA, bone marrow and the like).Bernklau stated, "Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead.Cases of lymphoblastic leukaemia have more than quadrupled and a sixfold increase in child leukaemia since 1992 has been attributed to the presence of depleted uranium.Doug Rokke, an Army health physicist assigned in 1991 to clean up DU, reports that ten years on, 30% of his team are dead, and most of the others (himself included) now suffer serious health issues.Environmental groups have raised concerns about the use of this material, particularly in munitions because it is radioactive, effectively lasts forever in the environment, and also it is toxic in the same manner as lead and other heavy metals.He says, "Verified adverse health effects from personal experience, physicians and from personal reports from individuals with known DU exposures include reactive airway disease, neurological abnormalities, kidney stones and chronic kidney pain, rashes, vision degradation and night vision losses, lymphoma, various forms of skin and organ cancer, neuropsychological disorders, uranium in semen, sexual dysfunction and birth defects in offspring.On the other hand, a UK Atomic Energy Authority report states that some 500,000 people would die before the end of this century, due to radioactive debris left in the Gulf desert
Edited sentence: Bernklau stated, “Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead.Cases of lymphoblastic leukaemia have more than quadrupled.Environmental groups have raised concerns about the use of this material, particularly in munitions because it is radioactive, and also it is toxic in the same manner as lead and other heavy metals.” The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent, except for Viet Nam which was 10 percent