[ RadSafe ] Re: A likely source for a great many of the contestedbirth defects...

[Eric D]

Salsman wrote:
>>The fact remains that the number of birth defects in the children of
combat-deployed male U.S. and U.K. 1991 Gulf War troops has been rising
sharply, from 180% above the non-combat troops from the same era in 2000, to
220% in 2003.  Nutritional deficiency-related causes of birth defects affect
mothers, not fathers. <<

These are not the facts. This is how urban legends are started.

Again I would refer all interested to the most recent review of birth
defects and Gulf War has just been published by the Institute of Medicine,
2006.
http://www.nap.edu/openbook/030910176X/html/index.htmlhttp://www.nap.edu/ope
nbook/030910176X/html/index.html 

The conclusion was: 

"This the committee concludes that there is no consistent pattern of higher
prevalence of birth defects among the off spring of male or female Gulf War
veterans and no single defect, except urinary tract abnormalities, has been
found in more than one well-designed study."

Eric Daxon, PhD, CHP