Air Force Reserve Capt. Matthew Lee Stanley has a blood sample taken in 2003 as part of an increase in medical screenings for Gulf War Illness and other potential problems. (Photo by Mario Villafuerte/Getty Images)
A recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, released on the 25th anniversary of the Gulf War, has concluded that Gulf War Illness (GWI) has no biological cause and is not the result of exposure to pesticides, anti-nerve gas pills, and chemicals in nerve gas agents — as researchers from Boston University School of Public Health and a dozen other institutions had concluded.
On February 23, Congress will hold a hearing on Gulf War health issues in response to concerns and criticism of the IOM report and its potential effect on veterans suffering from GWI, the constellation of chronic health symptoms that include fatigue, pain, headaches, and gastrointestinal and cognitive problems. An estimated 25-33 percent of the nearly 700,000 of the 1990-1991 Gulf War suffer from GWI.
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http://www.bu.edu/sph/2016/02/20/gulf-war-vets-counting-on-researchers-qa-with-professor-kimberly-sullivan/
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