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solar injury.

	6. Psychiatric Illnesses (PSY): depression, situational reactions, anxiety, 
neuroses, psychotic reactions, suicide attempts, substance abuse.

	7. Non-battle Injuries (NBI): fractures, sprains, contusions, lacerations, 
abrasions, animal bites, snake bites.

	8. Medical Illnesses (MED ILL): cardio-respiratory problems such as chest pain, 
hypertension, neurological problems such as headaches, convulsions, syncopal episodes

	9. Special Categories (SPEC CAT): These were reported as a total figure and 
individually by each MTF each week. Note that this data is tabulated in the attachments by 
theater average but not by unit and reporting week. This was done because the 108 pages 
that would be required to tabulate the data by unit and week would not add significant 
information to this report.

		a. diarrhea! disease (two or more loose stools per day -
recorded also as gastrointestinal illness)
		b. sandfly fever
		c. Hepatitis A
		d. dengue fever
		e. crimean - congo hemorrhagic fever
		f. malaria
		g. leishmaniasis
		h. schistosomiasis
		i. Q-fever
		j. helminth diseases
		k. spirochetal disease (leptospirosis, relapsing fever)
		l. sexually transmitted disease
		m. meningococcal meningitis
		n. typhus
		o. plague
		p. rabies
		q. brucellosis
		r. toxoplasmosis
		s. trachoma
		t. anthrax
		u. botulism
		v. typhoid

V. DATA REPORTED AND INTERPRETATION.

	1. The attached charts display the case rate per 1000 for each syndrome, by week, 
for each deployed MTF. Also given is the theater-wide weekly average rate of all MTFs for 
each syndrome. The dates on these charts are the closing dates of each reporting week (the 
reporting week ran from Sunday to Saturday).

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