FW: More on the Gulf War illness and DU

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@aecl.ca>]

....as usual, there is no word on how/if there was any check to see if the
presumed DU wasn't in fact just NU-NORM.
Jaro

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> Subject: 	More on the Gulf War illness and DU
> 
> Aha!  If one listens to the CBC, one believes that depleted uranium has
> been proven to be the cause of the Gulf War sickness.  Not so, according
> to their own source ...
> 
> 
> Doctor offers to share Gulf War findings
> Krista Foss
> 
> Thursday, February 10, 2000 
> A U.S. doctor who found depleted uranium in the bones of a dead Canadian
> soldier has offered to share his research results with the Canadian
> government. But Dr. Asaph Durakovic said yesterday that his tests on the
> bones, organs and lymph nodes of former military police officer Terry
> Riordon do not conclusively show that depleted uranium is the cause of
> so-called Gulf War syndrome.
> "It is not conclusive by any stretch of the imagination," said Dr.
> Durakovic, a Washington medical doctor and nuclear physicist. "The fact is
> that uranium in the body of exposed veterans most likely is a contributing
> factor to the complexity of Gulf War illness."
> Reports this week of Dr. Durakovic's findings have put pressure on the
> Department of National Defence, which says the syndrome is stress-related.
> Mr. Riordon died last April after an 8½-year battle against mysterious,
> debilitating symptoms that began after he returned from the Persian Gulf.
> 
> 
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