Report: 1-in-4 Gulf War veterans still suffer from toxin exposure

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:08 PM EST

Article Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

health, military, gulf-war, gulf-war-syndrome

Seventeen years after the decisive but relatively quick Persian Gulf War invasion of Iraq to liberate Kuwait, a landmark 450-page report released Monday by a federal panel of scientific experts and veterans concludes what many veterans already knew about Gulf War illness:

At least one-fourth of the nearly 700,000 military personnel who served in that war and its aftermath have complex but real health problems that the report now scientifically links to a poisonous stew to which they were exposed.

"Veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War had the distinction of serving their country in a military operation that was a tremendous success, achieved in short order. But many had the misfortune of developing lasting health consequences that were poorly understood and, for too long, denied or trivialized," the report said.

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It's about time that the government acknowledged this.

Now the question is how will the government respond now?

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