GULF VETS SUFFER MORE ILL HEALTH, STUDIES SHOW.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Two new government studies show for the first time that veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War Persian Gulf War or Gulf War (1990–91) International conflict triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. Though justified by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on grounds that Kuwait was historically part of Iraq, the invasion was presumed to be are far more likely to suffer from a variety of serious health problems than troops who did not serve in the war, a finding that appears to vindicate ailing veterans who have said that their service in the gulf has cost them their health. The studies - one conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. , the other by the Navy - do not resolve the mystery of what is making most of the veterans ill. But they clearly show that Gulf War veterans are having health problems in unusual numbers and that their illnesses can be disabling, even though they do not necessarily result in hospital admissions or death. Government studies published earlier this month showed that Gulf War veterans were not hospitalized or dying at unusual rates through the fall of 1993. Preliminary results from a new study by the centers, which focused on the health of nearly 4,000 military personnel, many of them reservists from this area of central Pennsylvania, found that troops deployed to the gulf were more than three times as likely as troops who served elsewhere to suffer from chronic diarrhea, joint pain, skin rashes, fatigue, depression and memory loss. They also have reported far higher rates of headaches, sinus problems and sleep disturbances. The CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation study is expected to link some of the veterans' health problems to chronic fatigue syndrome chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), collection of persistent, debilitating symptoms, the most notable of which is severe, lasting fatigue. In other countries it is known variously as myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and and the physical aftereffects aftereffects after npl → Nachwirkungen pl of battlefield stress. It is supposed to be published early next year. |
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