KHAKI ALERT
Willing soldiers develop unwelcome symptoms

Several returned Iraqi liberators have been found to be showing symptoms of a disease bearing the hallmarks of a mild dose of the deadly SARS virus. A number of the returned Iraqi Freedom soldiers in the US, the UK and Australia have been confined to bed and there are investigations being made about whether to quarantine them.

The symptoms are markedly different from those exhibited by soldiers from the first Gulf War who complained of so-called "Gulf War Syndrome". However, it is possible that they may be due to a common cause - pre-war innoculations. A spokesfolk for NHIV, the organisation investigating the cause and nature of the disease, stated that "the different symptoms may be due to different innoculations this time around. It was said that the soldiers were going to be given Anthrax vaccine. It's possible that they may have been given a small dose of SARS as a preventitive measure as well."

When the point was made that SARS only came to the world's attention after the troops were deployed in the Gulf, the Press Conference was abruptly cancelled. The reporter in question has since been fired for unrelated reasons.