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	frontline: the gulf war: appendix: gulf war syndrome
		frontline: the gulf war: appendix: gulf war syndrome
		The postwar ailments of Gulf War veterans have become known as 'Gulf War Syndrome' and millions of dollars of research and many health studies are focusing on whether it is a definable illness.
		About 70,000 Gulf War veterans say their depression, anxiety, musculoskeletal disorders, fatigue, respiratory problems, memory loss and other symptoms are associated with Gulf War exposure to chemicals from burning oil wells, insecticides and, to poison or poisons linked to innoculations against biological warfare or to Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/appendix/syndrome.html (611 words)

	Gulf War syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gulf War veterans were exposed to a number of sources of these compounds, including nerve gas and pesticides.
		Although not identifying Gulf War syndrome by name, in June of 2003 the High Court of England and Wales upheld a claim by Shaun Rusling that the depression, eczema, fatigue, nausea and breathing problems that he experienced after returning from the Gulf War were attributed to his military service.
		Among Gulf war soldiers, failure to conceive was 2.5% vs. 1.7% in the control group, and the rate of miscarriage was 3.4% vs. 2.3%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome (2739 words)

	Dr. Koop - Gulf War Syndrome- Health Encyclopedia and Reference
		Gulf War Syndrome is the name given to a variable combination of psychological and physical complaints experienced by veterans of the Persian Gulf War.
		Shortly after the war ended, military doctors discovered that several sick soldiers were infected with Leishmania tropica, a parasite transmitted through the bites of infected sandflies.
		A second theory holds that Gulf War veterans were poisoned by their own high-tech weapons.
	www.drkoop.com /encyclopedia/43/320.html (736 words)

	What is Gulf War Syndrome?
		Soldiers in the Gulf region were exposed to a bewildering variety of nasties: oil smoke, nerve gas, vaccines, depleted uranium, fuel, insecticides, anti-nerve-gas medicines -- in addition to the usual dislocation, boredom, exhilaration and terror of wartime.
		Behind the disputes over gulf war syndrome is a long-standing argument over the effects of low doses of chemicals.
		According to this theory, gulf swar syndrome is a more heavily publicized and intensely researched version of the physical and psychological impact of waging war.
	whyfiles.org /025chem_weap/2.html (1153 words)

	Gulf War syndrome - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Gulf War syndrome (GWS) or Gulf War illness (GWI) is the name given to an illness with symptoms including increases in the rate of immune system disorders and birth defects, reported by combat veterans of the 1991 Gulf War.
		Symptoms attributed to this syndrome have been wide-ranging, including chronic fatigue, loss of muscle control, migraines and other headaches, dizziness and loss of balance, memory problems, muscle and joint pain, indigestion, skin problems, and shortness of breath.
		With a diagnosis of Gulf War syndrome, it is also important to consider whether there is an underlying condition causing Gulf War syndrome.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /g/gulf_war_syndrome/intro.htm (744 words)

	Gulf War Syndrome
		Gulf War syndrome is a widely used term to refer to the unexplained illnesses occurring in Gulf War veterans.
		According to the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, at least 12 percent of Gulf War veterans are currently receiving some form of disability compensation because of Gulf War syndrome.
		While there is no specific treatment for Gulf War syndrome, research suggests than an approach called cognitive-behavioral therapy may help patients with non-specific symptoms syndromes lead more productive lives by actively managing their symptoms.
	www.umm.edu /environ/gulf.htm (299 words)

	Gulf War Syndrome and Military Vaccines: Adverse Reactions. Thinktwice! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Nearly 43,000 Gulf War veterans are stricken with debilitating illnesses: bleeding rashes, gums, and sinuses; muscle aches, swollen joints, chronic fatigue, diarrhea, hair loss, severe headaches, and memory loss.
		During the Persian Gulf War, hundreds of thousands of soldiers were given experimental vaccines and drugs, and today we will hear evidence that these medical products could be causing many of the 'mysterious illnesses' those veterans are now experiencing.
		Since their return from the war in the Persian Gulf, many veterans have complained of a variety of health problems including reports of an increased number of birth defects and other reproductive problems.
	thinktwice.com /gulfwar.htm (2718 words)

	Gulf War Syndrome: Online Reference For Health Concerns
		War syndrome (GWS), affecting a number of men and women who served in the Persian Gulf War, represents a group of medical and psychological complaints, including fatigue, respiratory illness, muscular pain, spasms, skin rash, memory loss, dizziness, peripheral numbness, and sleep disturbances.
		Confounding the inquest, manifestations of the syndrome are unpredictable.
		Whether Gulf War personnel have an increased incidence of infants born with birth defects compared to nondeployed personnel is unclear.
	www.lef.org /protocols/prtcl-143.shtml (2318 words)

	Gulf War Syndrome
		But it is not just the veterans themselves who are suffering, many believe that Gulf War Syndrome is responsible for horrendous birth defects in their children.
		In the supposed 'fog of war' which surrounded the clubs and bars of Whitehall, a memo detailing the dangers of multiple vaccines was logged and then forgotten.
		While those of us fighting in the Gulf were being shot at and dying, MOD officials were losing faxes because of the pressures of war.
	www.johnnichol.com /gulf_war_syndrome.htm (1283 words)

	Gulf War Syndrome Information on Healthline
		Gulf War syndrome describes a wide spectrum of illnesses and symptoms ranging from asthma to sexual dysfunction that have been reported by U.S. and U.S. allied soldiers who served in the Persian Gulf War in 1990–1991.
		The experimental drug was given to U.S. and Canadian troops during the war to protect soldiers against the effects of the chemical nerve agent soman.
		Chronic fatigue syndrome has a specific medical definition that attempts to separate common fatigue from a more disabling illness in hope of finding a specific cause.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/gulf-war-syndrome (877 words)

	Gulf War Syndrome
		Many Persian Gulf War veterans are apparently suffering from a chronic form of brain stem encephalitis-a brain stem encephalopathy, not PTSD, according to a promising new study by William F. Baumzweiger, MD. "I'm very familiar with PTSD patients and their symptoms.
		Baumzweiger says that key to understanding the full story of Persian Gulf Illness is to understand that neuroimmune, neuroendocrine, and autonomic systems that have all been affected, and to understand how they have been affected which he intrinsically details in volumes of research literature.
		Syndrome I causes reasoning impairment, sleep disorders and depression, Haley said, while Syndrome III causes pain in the joints and muscles, even though the joints and muscles are normal.
	home.att.net /~potsweb/gulfwar.html (3304 words)

	Gulf War Health
		These symptoms were indeed more common in Gulf War veterans, but have been seen in every war in which the United States has participated.
		The majority of symptoms seen after the first Gulf War were due to a specific exposure that has yet to be discovered (e.g., an undiagnosed infection, low levels of nerve gas).
		Returning Iraqi War veterans have been exposed to a war with greater numbers of combat and civilian casualties, longer periods of intense fighting and bombings, fear of surprise attacks and ambushes, lack of sleep, harsh weather conditions, and knowledge of the lack of international support and frequent war protests.
	www.med.umich.edu /gulfwarhealth (851 words)

	Gulf War Syndrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Thousands of individuals who served in the Persian Gulf War claim they are afflicted with a broadly defined syndrome they believe has its source in some event or series of events which occurred during that war.
		Gulf war syndrome: There may be no specific syndrome, but troops suffer after most wars from the British Medical Journal
		Gulf War Veterans and Illness by Steven Milloy
	www.skepticism.net /gws/index.html (389 words)

	Gulf war syndrome
		Hyman, who has testified before Congress about Gulf War illness, has warned that the nation's blood supply, much of which is donated by active duty military personnel, may be unsafe.
		A former president of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, he hasn't become sick treating Gulf War veterans, but he believes that many of their illnesses are contagious.
		Gulf War syndrome never occurred to them since neither had served in the military.
	www.purehealthsystems.com /times.html (1931 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Gulf War syndrome 'does exist'
		The study was welcomed by British veterans of the Gulf war.
		"Gulf war veterans really are ill at an elevated degree and several studies bring consistent findings that about 25%-30% of those who were deployed are ill," Professor Golomb told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
		It found veterans of the 1991 Gulf War were more likely to report symptoms of ill-health, but similar symptoms were reported by both those who did not serve in the Gulf.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3748844.stm (455 words)

	Gulf War syndrome 'does exist'
		Comment: Why is this surprising, given that the troops have been continually subject to Depleted Uranium munitions, as we have documented over and over.
		The findings can be seen in a report by the influential Research Advisory Committee on Gulf war veterans' illness, leaked to the New York Times.
		"Gulf war veterans really are ill at an elevated degree and several studies bring consistent findings that about 25%-30% of those who were deployed are ill," Professor Golombe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
	www.infowars.net /Pages/Oct_04/161004_syndrome.html (245 words)

	frontline: last battle of the gulf war
		In the years following the return home of the last U.S. troops who participated in ground war in the Persian Gulf, attention has turned from the historic victory to a strange new sickness the press has dubbed Gulf War Syndrome.
		But while many veterans believe something in the Gulf made them ill, scientists argue Gulf War veterans are not dying or being hospitalized at a higher-than-average rate.
		FRONTLINE tells the story of how Gulf War Syndrome came into existence, examining the psychology of war, the politics of veterans affairs, and the roles of the media and the biomedical research community.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/syndrome (100 words)

	Self Help Guide for Persian Gulf War Veterans
		After the completion of the Gulf War a ban on all blood donations from veterans was initiated to protect the American public from exposure to a variety of new and old infectious diseases.
		Gulf war claims are being sent to one of four regional centers for adjudication and are often warehoused there for many months.
		The law firms filing suit hope to prove that Gulf War Syndrome is the direct result of exposure to low levels of biological and nerve agents from Iraqi missile attacks and from fallout from coalition force bombing of Iraqi weapons facilities during the war.
	www.gulfweb.org /bigdoc/selfhelp.cfm (12635 words)

	Gulf War syndrome
		Gulf War syndrome describes a wide spectrum of illnesses and symptoms ranging from asthma to sexual dysfunction that have been reported by U.S. and U.S. allied soldiers who served in the Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991.
		The key to working successfully with people living their lives with Gulf War syndrome is long-term, ongoing care, whether it be hypnotherapy, acupuncture, homeopathy, nutrition, vitamin/mineral therapy, or bodywork.
		When a syndrome is first identified, an attempt is made to define it as strictly as possible, even to the exclusion of some cases, in order to separate out a pure enough sample to study.
	www.healthatoz.com /healthatoz/Atoz/ency/gulf_war_syndrome.jsp (1367 words)

	CNN - Pentagon: Drug may be linked to Gulf War Syndrome - October 19, 1999
		Earlier government studies had ruled out PB as a possible cause of Gulf War Syndrome but now, "we simply don't know," said the 385-page report's author, Dr. Beatrice Alexandra Golomb of Rand Corp., a California research institute.
		Golomb and Bailey were joined at a Pentagon news conference by Dr. Bernard Rostker, the undersecretary of the army who is the Pentagon's senior official overseeing Gulf War illnesses.
		PB was given to about 250,000 of the nearly 700,000 American troops sent to the Persian Gulf as protection against soman, a lethal, fast-acting nerve agent produced by the former Soviet Union and believed at the time to have been part of Iraq's arsenal.
	www.cnn.com /US/9910/19/gulf.war.syndrome.02/index.html (536 words)

	WRITTEN TESTIMONY OF Dr. Garth Nicolson
		Gulf War Illnesses (GWI) have been proposed to be due to accumulated toxic insults that can result in chronic illnesses with relatively nonspecific or not unique signs and symptoms.
		Chemical and biological exposures occurred during the Gulf War, and many civilian patients may have been exposed to chemical and biological substances that could be the underlying initial cause of their illnesses [3].
		Bernard Rostker, Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses and more recently Assistant Secretary of the Army, at the 17th Town Hall meeting on Gulf War Illnesses at Camp Pendleton on 23 September 1998 indicate that the DoD is still trying to bury the issue of infectious diseases and GWI.
	www.gulfwarvets.com /testimony.htm (4373 words)

	Gulf War Syndrome - Military Benefits - Military.com
		Veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War are provided with free, comprehensive medical examinations, including laboratory and other diagnostic tests deemed by an examining physician necessary to determine health status.
		The VA operates a toll-free hotline at 800-749-8387 to inform Persian Gulf War veterans about VA programs, their benefits and the latest information on Persian Gulf benefits.
		Persian Gulf veterans who suffer from chronic disabilities resulting from undiagnosed illnesses may receive disability compensation from VA. The undiagnosed illnesses must have appeared either during active duty in the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations during the Persian Gulf War or at any time since, through December 31, 2001.
	www.military.com /benefits/veterans-health-care/gulf-war-syndrome (272 words)

	GULF WAR SYNDROME COVER-UP
		The syndrome's cause is unclear, but veterans and researchers have focused on the elements of a toxic chemical soup in the war zone that includes insecticides, pesticides, various preventive medicines given experimentally to GIs, and smoke from the burning oilfields of Iraq and Kuwait.
		Its policy of denial is making it substantially harder for Gulf War veterans to receive diagnoses that include all the probable toxins and their possible synergistic effects.
		Evidence of CBW exposure during the war is abundant and mounting.
	mediafilter.org /caq/Caq53.gws.html (3938 words)

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