Hazardous yellow dust levels recorded

[unhappycamper]

Hazardous yellow dust levels recorded
By T.D. Flack, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, June 1, 2008

Yellow dust created "hazardous" conditions in some areas of South Korea on Friday, according to the Korean Meteorological Administration and the U.S. military’s 18th Medical Command.

Dust levels registered 1,059 micrograms per cubic meter at Yongsan Garrison and 994 micrograms at Camp Humphreys and Osan Air Base.

Anything above 800 micrograms falls under the U.S. military’s highest dust alert status, hazardous, and all personnel are told to remain indoors and keep activity levels low.

The dust, blown across the Korean peninsula from Chinese and Mongolian deserts, may include heavy metals.

Camps Casey and Red Cloud showed a high of 624 micrograms, and Kunsan Air Base registered 724 micrograms.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=55228

[thecrow]

1. And just think about the dust in Iraq

filled with all that "harmless"* depleted uranium!

*Pentagon report on Depleted Uranium


Wait! Isn't Depleted uranium a heavy metal??

[ensho]

2. radiation poisoning is forever

I think we should have heavy metals air detectors everywhere in the US

because we really don't know what we are actually breathing.