Re DU source and Gulf Illness

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

April 10



	The so-called Gulf War illness (or syndrome) has showed up after ever U.

S. war since at least the Civil War, with the apparent exception of the

Spanish-American War.



	See Kenneth C. Hyams, MD, MPH; F. Stephen Wignall, MD; and Robert Roswell,

MD; Annals of Internal Medicine, 125:398-405; Sept. 1, 1996.  Title of

their paper is:  "War Syndromes and their Evaluation:  From the U.S. Civil

War to the Persian Gulf War".  The authors conducted a vast literature

search -- they list 131 references.



Steven Dapra

sjd@swcp.com







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