Gulf War Syndrome Researchers Blame Sarin Gas And Toxic Exposures

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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/116167

Gulf War Syndrome Researchers Blame Sarin Gas and Toxic Exposures

August 26, 2009Toomey and colleagues, researchers at the Boston Veterans Administration Healthcare System, confirmed that Gulf War deployment is associated with subtle declines of motor speed and sustained attention as influenced by exposure to toxicants during deployment.

Toomey found that exposure to sarin gas released during the Khamisiyah destruction is correlated with long-term reduced motor speed in veterans that has not resolved after 10 years. Self-reported exposure to these toxicants is also significantly associated with attention deficits.

Ten years after the war, deployed veterans are still in poor health and perform significantly worse on cognitive tests than non-deployed veterans. Gulf War veterans complaints include:

Poor cognition.

Slowed motor function.

Memory Loss

Chronic Fatigue

Skin Rash

Hair Loss

Headache

Muscle pain

Gastrointestinal Disorders

Cardiovascular Changes

Chemical Sensitivity

These health alterations point to potential long-term, permanent impairment from toxicant exposure.

The symptoms of Gulf War veterans are analogous to a group of multi-system illnesses increasingly seen in the general population, notably: multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and fibromyalgia (FM). These illnesses all share a common pattern of initiation and, thus, they may share a common etiology (cause) in long-term, permanent impairment from toxic exposure.

Reference

Toomey R, Alpern R, Vasterling JJ, Baker DG, Reda DJ, Lyons MJ, Henderson WG, Kang HK, Eisen SA, Murphy FM. Neuropsychological functioning of U.S. Gulf War veterans 10 years after the war. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2009 Jul 29:1-13. [Epub ahead of print]

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I have been stating the same thing since Dr William Page released the March 2003 Sarin Report where he ignored the 1975 SIPRI report on Long Term Health Effects of Chemical Weapons and the Jan 1994 NIH Report on Toxic exposures, I wonder why it took these researchers 6 years to come to the same conclusion, that the Sarin and Mustard agents at Kamisayah in March 1991 is related to the 500,000 disabled veterans of Gulf War One?