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| According to Walter Reed, since January 2003 -- just before the beginning of the Iraq War -- 52 percent of soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan by bombs and treated at the hospital have been diagnosed with TBI. TBI is caused by the supersonic shockwave produced by an explosion -- often from an IED -- which damages or destroys brain cells. |
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