61. Despite The Credible Research Linking GWS With Anthrax Vaccine Or receiving anthrax vaccine was related to gulf war illnesses. Instead,. 4. Steele L. Prevalence and patterns of Gulf War Illness in Kansas. http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/AnthraxGWS.htm

Anthrax Vaccine Causes Gulf War Syndrome Until 1998, there existed no published papers that explored whether receiving anthrax vaccine was related to Gulf War illnesses. Instead, several expert committees (lacking experience with anthrax) were asked to comment on whether anthrax vaccine was likely to be a cause of Gulf War Illnesses. The committees were given DOD briefings, did not review the literature (there were no published studies of safety or efficacy for the licensed anthrax vaccine), concluded that a relationship was unlikely, and then recommended against further research (1). Studying American veterans was particularly difficult because many were not told whether they were given anthrax vaccine, and the vaccinations were specifically not entered into service members' shot records. Other centralized vaccine records have been lost. Despite concerns about the investigational status of anthrax vaccine when used for biological warfare, no informed consent was obtained from service members at the time of the Gulf War, and no waiver of informed consent was sought from

62. Anthrax Vaccine, Gulf War Syndrome And Anti-Squalene Antibodies In GAO/NSIAD99-5, gulf war illnesses - Questions About the Presence of Squalene Antibodies in Veterans Can Be Resolved, the GAO urged the DoD to conduct its http://www.autoimmune.com/GWSGen.html

Gulf War Syndrome ANTI-SQUALENE ANTIBODIES LINK GULF WAR SYNDROME TO ANTHRAX VACCINE Data published in the February 2000 and August 2002 issues of Experimental and Molecular Pathology strongly suggests that Gulf War Syndrome is caused by a vaccine contaminated with squalene. The August 2002 article is entitled "Antibodies to Squalene in Recipients of Anthrax Vaccine" ( Exp. Mol. Pathol. Gulf War Syndrome, or GWS, is the term which has been applied to the multi-symptom rheumatic disorder experienced by many veterans of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf war. A similar disorder appeared in 1990-1991-era personnel who were never deployed to the Persian Gulf theater of operations and also in other military personnel, including participants in the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program, or AVIP, which was inaugurated in 1997. No data has ever suggested that the disorder experienced by the deployed 1990-1991 soldiers is different from the disorder experienced by the other groups of patients, but the other cases have not been considered to be cases of GWS. Squalene was found by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in five lots of the AVIP anthrax vaccine. The discovery of serum anti-squalene antibodies and the development of a test to detect these antibodies has made it possible to see that links appear to exist between the contaminated AVIP vaccine lots, the illness experienced by post-1997 vaccine recipients, the illness experienced by non-deployed 1990-1991-era patients, and the illness in deployed 1990-1991-era patients that has been referred to as GWS.

63. MOAA - Today's Officer: Research On Gulf War Illnesses Benefiting Today's Troups Research on gulf war illnesses Benefiting Today s Troops. By Don Vaughan. Maj. Alan Jones (not his real name), USAFRet., was the http://www.moaa.org/TodaysOfficer/OnlineEdition/Military/GulfWarIllness.asp

JUNE 2004 HOME Legislative Front Featured Columnists Financial Center ... Printable version Research on Gulf War Illnesses Benefiting Today's Troops By Don Vaughan Maj. Alan Jones (not his real name), USAF-Ret., was the picture of health prior to his 30-day stint in the Middle East as a logistics officer in Operation Desert Storm. He ran every day and took great pride in his physical condition. But something happened to Jones while he was in the theater of operations. Shortly after returning to Germany, he started feeling bad and began experiencing respiratory problems that eventually resulted in treatment for asthma, a condition he never had before. Then, in the months and years that followed, he developed a growing fatigue that made it increasingly difficult for him to do his job. In 1996—despite the fact that he was up for a promotion to lieutenant colonel—Jones felt he had no choice but to retire. Following a thorough physical evaluation, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gave him a 60 percent service-connected disability, a figure that likely will go up as his condition worsens. Jones is just one of thousands of soldiers who became chronically ill after serving in the Persian Gulf War, a literal army of service personnel afflicted with what now are known collectively as Gulf War illnesses. Researchers at the Department of Defense (DoD) and the VA have been actively studying this bizarre phenomenon with the goal of reducing the risk of war-related health problems among the next generation of troops.

64. Gulf War Illness a leak of (live agent) from the Tooele Army Depot or one of the (storage) bunkers, residents of Salt Lake City may end up having gulf war illnesses coming to a http://home.comcast.net/~kknowlto/gws.htm

Deseret News Sunday, January 12, 1997 Group says that chemical weapons incinerator could produce similar symptoms. By Zack Van Eyck, Staff Writer Could the same mysterious ailments many Persian Gulf veterans say they're experiencing plague residents on the Wasatch Front? Maybe not tomorrow, but years from now Utahns could find themselves suffering from fatigue, body aches, rashes, memory loss and other health problems, and their children could come into the world with birth defects, opponents of the U.S. Army's chemical weapons incinerator in Tooele County said Saturday. A Desert Storm veteran, a former U.S. Senate staffer, a medical researcher and a Salt Lake mother were among a group of speakers who made a connection between so-called gulf war syndrome, exposure to even the lowest levels of chemical agent and the future health of the Salt Lake Valley's population. They said many Utahns could develop health problems if the incinerator, which releases minute and ostensibly harmless amounts of agent into the atmosphere, is allowed to continue burning the nation's largest stockpile of obsolete chemical weapons. They said because the Pentagon denied for years that soldiers were exposed to nerve agents, then admitted recently that more than 20,000 were exposed in March of 1991, the official word on incinerator emissions can't be trusted.

65. Gulf War Illness: Also, you can search Squalene, Gulf War, gulf war illnesses, Illnesses in Gulf war Veterans, Birth defects in Gulf War Veterans Children, or any variation of http://www.desert-storm.com/GWI/

Desert-Storm.com is proud to host a copy of the Gulf War Illness Awareness packet presented below. It is not meant to be a comprehensive exploration of GWI and its surrounding issues. Thanks go to Tonia Goertz for providing this compilation. If you wish to download this presentation in a more printer friendly format please right-click on the following link and choose Save As: gwi_packet.doc Gulf War Illness: A look at the Veterans and the Issues Surrounding American and Allied Veterans of The Gulf War. The intent of this packet is to make you aware of the problems faced By Persian Gulf Veterans. It is NOT meant to be comprehensive, rather a more personal look at the victims of this War. American citizens, and Veterans who have proudly served this country and are now suffering due to the apathy of the public, the lack of media attention similar to the POW and Agent Orange issues faced by our predecessors, and inadequate and inappropriate medical care. The goal of this packet is to make you aware of the reality of the life of our Veterans since the war, Included are the publicly available statistics, and the number to call for current statistics, excerpts of documents on major contributing factors, and Personal stories from the Veterans themselves.

66. KCL: Multiple Vaccines And Gulf War Illness - Study Results Ongoing work by the gulf war illnesses Research Unit at King s College London is looking at whether this effect is explained in alterations in immune function. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/news/ni/1805200001.html

Text only For King's staff and students Multiple vaccines and Gulf War illness - Study results 18 May 2000 A new study by King's College London of Gulf War veterans has found that multiple vaccines were associated with a range of problems including fatigue, depressive symptoms, and poor health perception. However, there was no major association between any individual vaccine and illness. These findings will be published in the British Medical Journal tomorrow (Friday 19 May). Health problems were related to multiple vaccination during (as opposed to before) deployment. For some health outcomes, personnel who received five or more vaccines during deployment had a five-fold increase risk of illness to those who received none or one vaccine. These results add to evidence of the overall safety of individual vaccines, including those given against biological warfare agents such as anthrax, but suggest that unexpected symptoms may be triggered if given en masse or during periods of stress. These results do not have any implications for current vaccination programmes in civilians. Data from a large survey of the health effects of deployment to the Gulf was used. Of those who responded to the survey, 3,284 had served in the Gulf, and of these 923 (28%) still had records of their vaccinations.

67. Bmj.com Hotopf Et Al. 327 (7428): 1370 1 gulf war illnesses Research Unit, Department of Psychological Medicine, Guy s, King s, and St Thomas s School of Medicine, London SE5 8AZ. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7428/1370

Home Help Search/Archive Feedback ... Table of Contents BMJ 2003;327:1370 (13 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7428.1370 Abridged text of this article PDF [abridged] of this article PDF of this article Email this article to a friend ... Respond to this article Read responses to this article Other related articles in BMJ PubMed citation Related articles in PubMed Download to Citation Manager This article has been cited by other articles Citation Map Search Medline for articles by: Hotopf, M. Wessely, S. Alert me when: New articles cite this article Collections under which this article appears: Organization of health care Patient - caregiver relationships Paper Matthew Hotopf reader Anthony S David professor Lisa Hull research assistant Vasilis Nikalaou statistician Catherine Unwin study coordinator Simon Wessely professor Gulf War Illnesses Research Unit, Department of Psychological Medicine, Guy's, King's, and St Thomas's School of Medicine, London SE5 8AZ Correspondence to: M Hotopf Abstract Top Abstract Introduction Method Results Discussion References Objectives Firstly, to describe changes in the health of Gulf

68. Gulf War Illnesses Not Caused By Stress In a surprise about face, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) has discarded the theory that gulf war illnesses are caused by stress and recognized that http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/spring03gulf.html

Gulf War Illness Not Caused by Stress UPdate Spring 2003 In a surprise about face, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) has discarded the theory that Gulf War illnesses are caused by stress and recognized that veterans may be suffering from brain damage caused by toxic exposures. The decision followed release of a British study of 111 disabled Desert Storm veterans, which concluded that the illnesses were not psychiatric disorders. Research results from studies which used brain scanning technology to document neurological damage also influenced the decision. “It is increasingly evident that at least one important category of illness in Gulf War veterans is neurological in character Magnetic resonance spectroscopy suggests a loss of neurons in selected brain areas in ill veterans, particularly in the basal ganglia and brain stem,” stated the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veteran’s Illnesses. Dr. Robert Haley, a committee member and Chief of Epidemiology at Texas Southwestern Medical Center says the stress theory is now “dead as a doornail.” Haley was involved in initial studies using magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study Gulf War vets. The VA announced $20 million in research funds in 2004 to pursue research into neurological damage among vets. It hopes to create a center dedicated to medical imaging technology with the objective of gaining more insight into Gulf War illnesses and other conditions. Earlier studies in this area were privately funded by millionaire Ross Perrot.

69. CFIDS gulf war illnesses (GWI). Gulf War. Chronic, disabling illness is far more common among Gulf War veterans than would be expected. http://www.cfids.org/about-cfids/gulf-war-syndrome.asp

Symptoms Diagnosis Related Conditions Do I Have CFIDS? ... Profiles GULF WAR ILLNESSES (GWI) Gulf War illnesses (GWI) is the term for a constellation of conditions with similar symptoms reported by soldiers who served in the Persian Gulf from August 1990-July 1991, during the time of the Persian Gulf War. Chronic, disabling illness is far more common among Gulf War veterans than would be expected. Symptoms of GWI GWI patients commonly report symptoms of fatigue, headache, memory problems, sleep disturbances, skin rash, muscle or joint pain, breathlessness, irritability, and gastrointestinal problems. In 1998 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed the following definition for "chronic multi-symptom illness" to classify cases of GWI: One or more chronic (more than 6 months) symptoms from two of the following categories: Fatigue Mood and cognition (depression, difficulty concentrating, moodiness, anxiety, word-finding difficulties, sleep disturbance) Musculoskeletal (joint pain, joint stiffness, muscle pain)

70. GreasyOnline News Hot Topics Gulf War Illness Update Meanwhile, the Office of Special Assistant for gulf war illnesses has issued a closeout report on Biological Weapons that summarizes to date possible http://www.greasyonline.com/news/gulfwarillness.htm

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71. GreenvilleOnline.com - Time Fails To Relieve Gulf War Illness Fears And only about a quarter of claims for gulf war illnesses have been granted, leaving many to worry that future soldiers will face the same fate. http://greenvilleonline.com/news/2003/02/08/200302081083.htm

window.name="video_window"; var USATAffilCode= 'gn'; Home News Communities Entertainment ... Help Time fails to relieve Gulf War illness fears Posted Saturday, February 8, 2003 - 11:21 pm By Liv Osby HEALTH WRITER losby@greenvillenews.com Gulf War vet Bruce Van Horn, in his Anderson home with his medals behind him, fears for solidiers who may be involved in a new war with Iraq. e-mail this story to a friend The Defense Department says America's fighting forces are better protected against chemical and biological attack than their Persian Gulf War counterparts. But some Gulf War veterans aren't so sure that the nation's newest soldiers won't return from a war in the Middle East suffering unexplained illnesses like those that remain their legacy. Half a million men and women served in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm. Thousands developed a variety of problems collectively dubbed Gulf War Syndrome that have been attributed to everything from chemicals and low-level radiation to parasites, the anthrax vaccine and even stress. But in the ensuing 12 years, dozens of studies have failed to pinpoint the cause of the illnesses, which range from rashes and joint pain to fatigue and sleep disorders. And only about a quarter of claims for Gulf War illnesses have been granted, leaving many to worry that future soldiers will face the same fate.

72. DefenseLINK:Illnesses Of Persian Gulf War Veterans - Links To Information Updated 10 Jun 1998. illnesses OF PERSIAN gulf war VETERANS Presidential Advisory Committe on gulf war Veterans illnesses. Relevant Telephone Numbers http://www.defenselink.mil/other_info/gulfvet.html

Jun. 02, 2004 War on Terror Transformation News Products Press Resources ... Contact Us Updated: 10 Jun 1998 ILLNESSES OF PERSIAN GULF WAR VETERANS: LINKS TO INFORMATION GulfLINK Veterans Affairs Persian Gulf Homepage Presidential Advisory Committe on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses Relevant Telephone Numbers: - If you have information that you believe would be of immediate value to us pertaining to the events at Khamisiyah, please call the PERSIAN GULF INCIDENT HOTLINE at 1-800-472-6719. - If you are experiencing health problems you believe to be a result of your service in Operation Desert Storm/Operation Desert Shield and you are eligible for health benefits through the Department of Defense, please call the COMPREHENSIVE CLINICAL EVALUATION PROGRAM at 1-800-796-9699. - If you are eligible for benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs system, please call the PERSIAN GULF HELPLINE at 1-800-PGW-VETS. Site Map About DoD Web Policy About DefenseLINK ... FirstGov.gov

73. Chronic Ill Net Home ChronicIllnet is the first multimedia information source on the Internet dedicated to chronic illnesses including AIDS, cancer, Persian gulf war Syndrome, autoimmune diseases, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, heart disease and neurological diseases. This site speaks to many different peopleresearchers, patients, laypeople, and physicians, to name a few. http://www.chronicillnet.org

Advanced Search Welcome. Chronic Ill Net provides a forum in which the facts about chronic illnesses are examined closely, providing a new scrutiny of age old problems. AIDS Anthrax/Bio/Chem Weapons Autoimmune Diseases Book Reviews ... ~The Archive Chronix Biomedical CEO Reveals Genome Theory of Disease At the Centenniel Celebration of the founding of the University of Michigan Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Ann Arbor... Smallpox Update: Vaccine 3, Bioterrorism During the 1940s and '50s, the disease smallpox and the vaccine to protect against it pretty much came out even. One in 1,000 va... Why is SARS Such a Mystery? Virus, Bacteria, Fungus, Parasite – Why Can't Researchers ID the Bug? SARS—"severe acute respiratory syndrome"—is the "mystery pneumonia" that prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to issue a... Special Report: Was There Ever a Poliovirus Epidemic?

74. The Presidential Advisory Committee On Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses NOTE The Presidential Advisory Committee on gulf war Veterans illnesses terminated November 1997 and its Web page now resides, unedited, in its final form on http://www.gwvi.ncr.gov/

Caring for veterans is not a partisan issue, it is a national obligation. . . They served their country with courage, skill and strength, and must now know that they can rely upon us. I pledge to our veterans and to every American, we will not stop until we have done all we can do to care for our Gulf War veterans. President Bill Clinton January 7, 1997 Updates - The Committee's Special Report is now available on this Web site. Committee Purpose Committee Members Meeting Schedule Meeting Transcripts ... Special Report This site was last updated on November 17, 1997 NOTE: The Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses terminated November 1997 and its Web page now resides, unedited, in its final form on the GulfLINK server. For your convenience, the Web address remains the same.

75. Presidential Advisory Committee On Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Presidential Advisory Committee on gulf war Veterans illnesses Final Report. CONTENTS. RECOMMENDED CITATION. MEMORANDUM. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. MAP. http://www.gwvi.ncr.gov/toc-f.html

Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Final Report CONTENTS RECOMMENDED CITATION MEMORANDUM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY MAP ... List of Acronyms

76. Pentagon To Screen All Troops For War Illnesses CNN http://cnn.com/2003/US/South/06/02/sprj.irq.gulf.illness.iraq.ap/index.html

77. Division Of Epidemiology have been conducting epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory research on the gulf war syndrome and related neurologic illnesses in gulf war veterans since http://www.swmed.edu/home_pages/epidemi/gws/

Division of Epidemiology Research on Gulf War-Associated Neurologic Illness By the Division of Epidemiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center Robert W. Haley, M.D., Director Dr. Robert Haley and colleagues at UT Southwestern have been conducting epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory research on the "Gulf War syndrome" and related neurologic illnesses in Gulf War veterans since March 1994. The work has been supported by a continuing grant from the Perot Foundation and by a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense. The objectives of the research are to define new or unique clinical syndromes among Gulf War veterans, determine their causes, identify areas of damage or dysfunction in the brain and nervous system responsible for the symptoms, develop a cost-effective battery of clinical tests that can diagnose the illness, search for underlying genetic traits that might predispose to the illness, and perform clinical trials of promising treatments. The initial studies identified three primary syndromes in a Naval reserve construction battalion (seabees) that appear to be unique, demonstrated that the syndromes are associated with subtle dysfunction of the brainstem and lower parts of the brain, and found epidemiologic associations between the syndromes and risk factors of exposure to combinations of chemicals in the Gulf War. Genetic studies have identified a genetic trait (PON1 enzymes) that may explain why some soldiers sustained brain damage from exposure to neurotoxic chemicals while others working alongside them remained well. Most recently, research using magnetic resonance spectroscopy has demonstrated a loss of functioning brain cells in deep brain structures of ill Gulf War veterans. Additional commentaries by Dr. Haley have challenged the government's stress theory of Gulf War syndrome and findings of no difference in mortality, hospitalization and birth defects between Gulf War-deployed and nondeployed military populations. Additional research and publications are in process.

78. Gulf War Syndrome Articles gulf war Illness Symptoms illnesses. New Information on GWS and Fybromyalgia! Click Here. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Severe http://www.ushostnet.com/gulfwar/articles.htm

Desert Shield/Desert Storm National Defense Medal Southwest Asia Service Medal Kuwait Liberation Medal - Saudi Kuwait Liberation Medal - Kuwait Home [ Gulf War Health Articles ] Gulf War Photos Index Attack On America Flash Animation Links by MasBlast.com New Information on GWS and Fybromyalgia! - Click Here Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Severe Headaches Rashes Joint Pain Muscle Pain Nerve Damage Neurological Damage Kidney Damage Lung Damage Cardiovascular signs or symptoms Thyroid Disease Multiple Cancers Auto-Immune Deficiencies Fluid Buildup Sleep Disturbances Gastrointestinal signs or symptoms Menstrual Problems Reduced IQ Confusion Memory Loss Fybromyligia Epstein Barr Syndrome Genetic Alterations Sinus Diseases Micoplasma Fermentans Incognitis Infections Unusual Hair Loss Loss Of Smell Chemical Sensitivities Asthma Vision Problems Gulf War Syndrome Articles GWS and Fybromyalgia Fybromyalgia Medical Handout What is Fybromyalgia Syndrome?

79. Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages at Kamisiyah. Following that action, he and his men suffer from many of the illnesses experienced by gulf war veterans. See the http://www.gulfweb.org/

Serving the Gulf War Veteran Community Worldwide Since 1994 What's New Documents Links Photos ... Contact Us June 2, 2004 12 YEARS SINCE END OF FIRST CONFLICT DAY 440 OF OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM Welcome to the Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages! We've been a presence on the Internet since early 1994, aiding Gulf War veterans in their pursuit for the truth. The site is run privately by volunteers and is not affiliated with the U.S. Government. The site is highly interactive, but also contains an enormous amount of archived content for you to discover. Navigation bars are located along the top and along the left edge of all pages of the site. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS: April 1st, 2003: The GWVRP Forums (Message Boards) have been fully updated with new software. Please check it out and participate in the online discussion forums! March 31st, 2003: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is developing a nationwide registry of living veterans who have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This effort is directed by the Epidemiologic Research and Information Center (ERIC) at the VA Medical Center in Durham, NC, with cooperation from the VA Medical Center in Lexington, KY. The ALS Association (ALSA) is advising the study leaders. All living veterans who have been diagnosed with ALS are encouraged to participate in this research registry.

80. Gulf War Veterans And Illness trying to characterize the nature of hospitalizations) the data do show that there was no large increase among gulf war veterans in the illnesses that lead http://www.junkscience.com/news/gulf-war.html

Gulf War Veterans and Illness N Engl J Med N Engl J Med N Engl J Med Talk about timely research. Two new studies published in this week's The New England Journal of Medicine (November 14, 1996) may have dealt a severe blow to the "son of Agent Orange." Over the last couple of weeks there has been a great deal of hub-bub in the media about so-called Gulf War illness i.e., veterans. who claim to suffer various adverse health effects from exposure to chemical agents during the Persian Gulf War. Recent uproar has involved claims of foot dragging and stonewalling by the Department of Defense and leaks of classified information by former CIA employees. Much of this has involved whether or not, and then, how many, Gulf War service men and women were exposed to chemical agents (like nerve gas). The new studies report No excess deaths among Gulf War veterans as compared to other veterans (study funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs); and No excess in hospitalizations among Gulf War veterans as compared to other veterans (study funded by the Department of Defense). Of the 695,516 Americans who served in the Persian Gulf War, 1,765 veterans died in the ensuing 2.4 years. Although Gulf War veterans had a 9 percent higher death rate than other non-Gulf War veterans, the excess deaths were caused by accidents, especially motor vehicle accidents. Compared to the general U.S. population, Gulf War veterans experienced 56 percent less mortality.

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