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U.S. Government Study: Gulf War Syndrome Doesn't Exist

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An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

There is no such thing as Gulf War syndrome, even though U.S. and foreign veterans of the war report more symptoms of illness than do soldiers who didn't serve there, a federally funded study concludes.

U.S. and foreign veterans of the Gulf War do suffer from an array of very real problems, according to the Veterans Administration-sponsored report released Tuesday.

Yet there is no one complex of symptoms to suggest those veterans — nearly 30 percent of all those who served — suffered or still suffer from a single identifiable syndrome.

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 9/12/2006 02:49:00 PM