By Texas News Desk
Feb 1, 2021
The eleven Fort Bliss soldiers who unknowingly consumed antifreeze are improving. The most recent tweets this weekend from the First Armored Division and William Beaumont Army Medical Center on base say the eleven soldiers who were hospitalized continue to get better. The tweets say five soldiers were slated to be released from the non-critical care ward on Saturday. The soldiers consumed the liquid mistaking it for a regular alcoholic beverage after completing a ten-day exercise on Thursday. Army investigators have not yet said where they got the liquid.
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11 soldiers who fell ill in Texas drank compound found in antifreeze, Army says
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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2014, file photo, cars wait to enter Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca, File)
and last updated 2021-02-01 14:33:15-05
FORT BLISS, Texas â The U.S. Army believes 11 soldiers who fell ill at Fort Bliss last week drank an industrial compound found in antifreeze, believing it was an alcoholic beverage.
The Army initially didnât know what the soldiers ingested before they were hospitalized, but later said in a statement that toxicology results indicate theyâre experiencing ethylene glycol poisoning.
11 Fort Bliss soldiers suffering from ethylene glycol poisoning improving, Army says | 30 Jan 2021 | Eleven soldiers suffering from poisoning effects after an incident at Fort Bliss near El Paso, Texas, were improving Saturday evening, authorities said. They were taken to the William Beaumont Army Medical Center Thursday, officials said, and two were in critical condition