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To: zonder who wrote (4331)	2/18/2003 3:20:11 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

zonder, I don't believe that "Gulf War Syndrome" exists. The massive study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that that Gulf War vets are suffering no more illness than veterans who didn't deploy to the Gulf theater. The main conclusion drawn was that, if anything, the Gulf vets were healthier than those who didn't deploy to the Gulf. The only difference is Gulf war vets have a somewhat higher level of complaints commonly associated with psychosomatic illness. Don't waste your time giving me links to non peer reviewed studies or anecdotes.

To: zonder who wrote (4331)	2/18/2003 10:31:15 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

If you are at all interested in medical research on the topic of Gulf War Syndrome, or any other medical topic, for that matter, one of the greatest databases on the Internet is maintained by the US National Institute of Health. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov I've been using it since the Internet was Unix based at 2400 baud. It just keeps getting better and better. I suggest you try as search terms gulf war syndrome which gives 394 research articles. You just get an abstract at best, but the abstracts give the salient information. I am not aware of any study which finds any statistically significant physiological difference between Gulf War veterans and control groups. In other words, whatever problems they have don't have any objective scientific basis. They do have greater anxiety levels. You can also input depleted uranium and that gives 131 research articles. Again, no scientific basis for any health risk due to the brief exposure to depleted uranium of soldiers in the battlefield. It's probably a health risk if you drink ground water that leaches uranium from the site over time, so best to remove it from the environment.