Gulf War Research Panel Finds 1 In 4 Veterans Suffers From Illness Caused By Toxic Exposure
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 22:28
in Health & Medicine
At least one in four of the 697,000 US veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness, a condition caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, including pesticides and a drug administered to protect troops against nerve gas, and no effective treatments have yet been found, a federal panel of scientific experts and veterans concludes in a new report.