"These US Troops Are Slowly Being Poisoned by Lead in Their Bones".
Furthermore, from the original article at
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/magazine/lead-poisoning-m...
"38 service members from 2012 to today [were] tested at Mount Sinai for chronic lead poisoning. Of those, a dozen have measured bone lead levels higher than what is considered normal, including four with almost twice the expected amount."
So 12 soldiers, hardly an epidemic. And who knows the cause. Perhaps most of the soldiers are reloaders who have cast their own bullets at home for years. Maybe they mold fishing weights or make lead toy soldiers. IOW this is something small, although important to those affected, which merits two investigations:
- one of their backgrounds and sources of exposure and
- perhaps a random sample test of the infantry population.