Table 1.

Southwest Asia Deployment Exposures¹⁹–²¹

Desert dust particulate matter Burn pit emission products Vehicular diesel exhaust Jet fuel exhaust Oil well fires Local industry emissions Controlled detonations Temperature extremes Cigarette and waterpipe smoke Biologic and microbial agents (eg, mold in residential dwellings, rodent excreta) Debris from detonation of improvised explosive devices and rocket mortars Depleted uranium (eg, spent artillery rounds) Industrial fires (eg, 2003 Al-Mishraq sulfur mine fire) Duty-specific exposures to chemicals, fumes, gases, and dusts