Sentences with phrase «gulf war chemical»
Twenty years of scientific research has traced these symptoms to Gulf War chemical exposures and the drugs taken during deployment that were meant to prevent or counteract these exposures.
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It led to the United States» acquiring and destroying at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the internationally condemned chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein's Baathist government manufactured in the 1980s but that were not accounted for by United Nations inspections mandated after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
«A CDC study found that sick Gulf War veterans reported more chemical intolerances than their healthy counterparts.
Exposure to toxic chemicals may be to blame for Gulf War illness.
«Based on a study of hens or rats, it would be impossible to say whether this combination of chemicals helps explain the causes of undiagnosed illnesses reported by some Gulf War veterans,» the Department of Defense says in a statement.
New research illuminates definitive brain alterations in troops with Gulf War Illness (GWI) thought to result from the exposure to neurotoxic chemicals, including sarin gas, during the first Persian Gulf War.
Circumstanial evidence suggests that Iraq fired chemical or biological weapons at allied troops during the Gulf War, says a US senator.
Gulf War veterans with low - level exposure to chemical weapons show lasting adverse effects on brain structure and memory function, reports a study in the October Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
When hundreds of thousands of American troops deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1990 and 1991 in what is now called the First Gulf War, they were exposed to a variety of chemicals.
At least 100,000 military veterans who served in the 1990 - 1991 Gulf War were exposed to chemical weapons, released into the air after the United States bombed an ammunition depot in Khamisiyah, Iraq.
This process, invented by the Navy, was used to search for airborne particles from chemical weapons during the Gulf War.
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