A fatal bug has claimed the life of one IDF soldier, leaving a second paralyzed, fighting for his life in Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center.
Private Kurei Separk, 19, died during basic training. He enlisted in the IDF in November 2009, into the elite Duvdevan unit of the Paratroops Corps. About a month later, he collapsed during a military exercise and his commanders sent him home, granting him a few days of medical leave. His condition deteriorated rapidly and he was flown to Rambam Medical Center in very serious condition, and died after 25 days.
The diagnosis of a potentially fatal infection was made immediately, and the soldier was admitted to an intensive care unit, placed on a mechanical respirator. Doctors explain that the infection simply destroyed his vital organs and his system collapsed. He also developed a serious case of pneumonia.
IDF Chief Medical Officer Brigadier-General Dr. Nachman Ash has ordered an investigation. The soldier’s levaya began at 3:00pm in Kfar Blum on Thursday.
In another case, a second soldier was admitted to a hospital about 10 days ago, suffering from a “mysterious infection”. This soldier is also serving in an elite unit. He is paralyzed from the waist down and doctors are at a loss for an explanation. It was first feared the paralysis was connected to a vaccine that he received in the military but this has been ruled out.
At present, doctors are uncertain if the death and the illness of the second soldier are connected.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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please daven for the soldier, a frum yeshiva boy, who was making a real kiddush Hashem.
יהונתן משה בן דבורה טובה
Yohonatan Moshe ben Devora Tova
He probably took the swine flu vaccine!
it is amusing that someone who calls himself ‘well informed’ believes, erroneously, that the swine vaccine is dangerous or deadly.
this is another example of how uninformed so many frum jews are these days. I just read an article about how r’ chaim kanyevsky just poskined that people should not take the h1n1 vaccine, when asked what information he had been given to make such a statement, he said ‘he had heard from other frum jews that it was dangerous’! this is not true at all, it is produced by using some of the virus, injected into a chicken egg to incubate, the virus is then isolated and killed, just like any other viral vaccine
this sickness may be one of a million of diseases that people can get. i would also not rule out some kind of government testing, which most countries do to their soldiers.
I dont know what type of bug it was, but his name was ‘Mahmūd.’
#4 I don’t think that the Israeli government would ever test a certain something on their soldiers. We are different then any other country
It would be helpful to know the kind of “bug” caused the “infection.” One can defend one’s self and one’s family if one knows for what enemy to watch!