Lab results show injured soldiers drank antifreeze during field training exercise
FORT BLISS, Texas (KTVT) Laboratory results show the 11 soldiers injured after ingesting a then “unknown substance,” during a field training exercise at the Army base in Fort Bliss on Jan. 28, experienced ethylene glycol glycol (commonly known as antifreeze) poisoning.
Even in small amounts, the chemical can cause immediate kidney failure. Other symptoms include nausea, agitation, and confusion.
Two of the 11 assigned to the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command were critically injured. All of the soldiers were admitted to the William Beaumont Army Medical Center, where they were immediately treated with the antidote.
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9 of 11 poisoned Fort Bliss soldiers released from hospital
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Feb 1, 2021 at 8:44 pm EDT
AUSTIN, Texas Nine of the 11 Fort Bliss soldiers sickened last week after drinking a component commonly found in antifreeze have been released from a Texas hospital, Army officials said Monday.
Two soldiers remained hospitalized at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, including one who is in intensive care, Fort Bliss officials said in a statement.
All 11 soldiers fell ill Thursday following a 10-day field training exercise at Fort Bliss’s McGregor Range Complex, the base said. Initially, base leadership said the soldiers had ingested an unauthorized substance.
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The troops drank the potentially lethal substance thinking it was alcohol and became ill Thursday afternoon. All of them spent at least one night at William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss.