Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2002. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2002. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
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Reuters NewMedia - July 24, 2002
Israeli doctors have found fragments of bone from a suicide bomber embedded in a 31-year-old woman who survived the attack. The fragments tested positive for liver disease hepatitis B.
Itzhak Braverman, of the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, Israel, told New Scientist magazine he believed it was the first report of human bone fragments acting as foreign bodies in a blast injury.
"No one had considered this danger before," New Scientist magazine said.
The magazine gave no details about when or where the suicide attack took place.
Braverman said he believed all embedded bone fragments in survivors of such bombings should be routinely tested for diseases such as hepatitis, dengue fever, syphilis, the human form of mad cow disease and possibly malaria. He also said survivors were being vaccinated.
"As a result of that case, all survivors of these attacks in Israel are now vaccinated from hepatitis B," Braverman told the magazine.
The biggest fear is finding HIV, which causes AIDS.
Braverman said the woman tested negative for HIV but added that the tests used are normally designed for blood and analysing bone fragments for diseases is more difficult.
At least 1,467 Palestinians and 559 Israelis have been killed since Palestinians began a revolt in September 2000 shortly after negotiations for a final peace treaty deadlocked.
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