Two deaths were confirmed. And hundreds of people were treated for bad drug reactions.
VOA: special.2009.08.10
The rash of departures is certainly being treated as bad news by many permanent Eurocrats in Brussels, who worry that this is a bad moment for the commission to drift along without strong leadership.
Many feel lessons had to be learnt from Vietnam, where some think the veterans were treated with contempt because they had the bad luck to fight in a war judged a mistake and a failure.