“...The complement response kicks in after the victim has been revived, in what is known as a reperfusion injury. It does its work slowly but unrelentingly, killing soldiers,...”
seems to me that “killing” soldiers would also include stages prior to “killing”, along the lines of what is generally studied as TBI....traumatic brain injury.....I’ll bet the TBI folks within and associated with the current DOD/VA TBI research are or will soon be very interested in this piece of the puzzle