[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: "Report: New vets showing Gulf War illness symptoms"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report: New vets showing Gulf War illness symptoms
This may be the first time symptoms are linked to current Iraq and  
Afghanistan veterans.

Kelly Kennedy
USA TODAY
January 23, 2013

WASHINGTON -- Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be  
suffering from the 20-year-old set of symptoms known as Gulf War  
Illness, according to a new report released Wednesday by the federal  
Institute of Medicine.

"Preliminary data suggest that (chronic multisymptom illness) is  
occurring in veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as well," the  
report says.

This may be the first time that the symptoms suffered by veterans of  
the 1991 Gulf War have been linked to veterans of the current wars,  
which started in 2001 and 2003, said Paul Rieckhoff, CEO of Iraq and  
Afghanistan Veterans of America.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/23/gulf-war-illness- 
symptoms/1856625/

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