On the Environmental Impact of Modern Warfare Hello, here are three articles that i found within short time of each other. The U.S. government will start testing an antibiotic this month as a possible cure for the thousands of veterans who say they suffer from Gulf War syndrome. Thirty military and veterans clinics in the country will offer the antibiotic, based on the theory that the symptoms may be caused by an airborne bacteria and might be contagious.
Most people feel relatively comfortable.
It is not infectious in the way that would result in some sort of catastrophic epidemic. An estimated 100,000 of the 700,000 Gulf War troops report suffering from the illness, characterized by extreme fatigue, joint and muscle pain, concentration and memory problems, rashes, fever, diarrhea and other symptoms that last six months or more. An independent report released by the Pentagon indicates that exposure to a radioactive material used in the Gulf War is unlikely to have caused the health complaints from veterans whose illnesses remain unexplained eight years after the war. The Rand Corp., a Santa Monica, Calif., think tank, reviewed scientific literature and found no evidence of harmful health effects directly linked to exposure to depleted uranium, which coats U.S. artillery shells and bombs designed to penetrate tank armor. On impact, the shells create an airborne dust.