Gulf War Research Panel Finds 1 in 4 Veterans Suffers from Illness Caused by Toxic Exposure
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Washington, DC – (Nov. 17, 2008) – At least one in four of the 697,000 U.S. 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 landmark report released Monday.
