Gulf War Illness

Gulf War research panel finds 1 in 4 veterans suffers from illness caused by toxic exposure 11/17/08. At least one in four of the 697,000 US veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness, a condition caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, including pesticides and a drug administered to protect troops against nerve gas, and no effective treatments have yet been found, a federal panel of scientific experts and veterans concludes in a landmark report released Monday. Boston University via Eurekalert!