The syringes the doctor is said to have used contained methotrexate, a drug used to terminate early pregnancies, Lieutenant Cirillo said.
Among the 39% of hormone users for whom information on type of preparation was available, 80% had primarily used preparations containing estrogen alone and 12% had used preparations containing both estrogen and progestin.
Some prominent dietary supplement researchers started warning about the potential health risks after the deaths in 2011 of two American soldiers who had used products containing the substance.
Some British advisers also complained that the Marines had little regard for civilian casualties and had used munitions containing depleted uranium that caused birth defects for years after the battle.
It is likely, however, that the large majority of oral contraceptive users had used preparations containing combined oestrogen and progestogen (Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer, 1996; IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, 1999).
The majority (99.3%) of respondents had heard of probiotics and were aware that they contained live bacteria (87.0%); 89.3% had used a product containing probiotics themselves but only 50.8% had given one to their infant.
Each of the 9 women interviewed on followup had used mercury-containing skin-lightening cream.
Kim JY et al. [ 38] reported that in 2003 Korea, almost 97%% people had used fluoride containing-toothpastes.
During World War I, France had used tear gas containing a mixture of chloroacetone and ethyl bromoacetate against German troops at Ypres on the Western Front, which was known to strongly irritate mucous membranes.
However, in a 1997 survey of Hispanic communities on the Texas Mexico border, 5% of households reported at least one person who had used a mercury-containing skin-lightening cream in the past year (Weldon et al. 2000).
