Re: PESTICIDES, NOT DEPLETED URANIUM, LINKED TO GULF WAR ILLNESS

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

No kidding!  How amazing!  how many RADSAFERs could have told them that?

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Gawarecki <loc@icx.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:13 PM
Subject: PESTICIDES, NOT DEPLETED URANIUM, LINKED TO GULF WAR ILLNESS


>PESTICIDES, NOT DEPLETED URANIUM, LINKED TO GULF WAR ILLNESS
>
>WASHINGTON, DC, January 15, 2001 (ENS) - In his final report before the
>change of administration, the Defense Department's special assistant for
>Gulf War Illnesses, Dr. Bernard Rostker, told reporters that pesticides,
>but not exposure to depleted uranium (DU), may be "among the potential
>contributing agents" to illnesses among Gulf War veterans.
>
><snip>
>
>The environmental exposure and health risk assessment report is
>available online at: http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/pest/ The Office of
>the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses is online at:
>http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/
>
>For full text and graphics visit:
>http://ens-news.com/ens/jan2001/2001L-01-15-03.html
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>.....................................................
>Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director
>Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee
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