Gulf War syndrome persists in US troops after 10 years

[stop the bleeding]

CHICAGO (AFP) -
Gulf War syndrome', a debilitating multi-symptom affliction identified in many soldiers after the 1991 conflict in Kuwait, is likely to strike US troops fighting in Iraq, a new study shows.

The syndrome, which proved hard to diagnose because it manifested itself in many different afflictions, remained widespread among US troops 10 years after the Gulf War ended, according to the study, lead-authored by Melvin Blanchard, assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

Blanchard's study will be published in January in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

A comprehensive medical evaluation of some 2,189 Gulf War veterans between 1999 and 2001 found that 28.9 percent of those deployed suffered from the affliction a decade after the war.

read more here:

12/29/2005 Gulf War syndrome persists in US troops after 10 years: study-AFP - yahoo.com

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Yawn

Depleted Uranium.

Those troops deployed in Iraq
They will find out one day
Depleted Uranium

[lovuian]

2. This is so sad...

:argh:

[Trevelyan]

3. The ones there now are getting a bigger hit of DU planned so that

the Bush Regime will not have to pay for the Veterans medical care.

There was an article on a former Navy scientist who now lives in Canada for his safety who was fired by the Navy though he was the only one with his medical/scientific specialty in the state of New Jersey when he refused to stop investigating the cause of the first Gulf War veterans severe medical problems.

He was shown in Japan telling them what to expect in the way of medical problems from their vets returning from Iraq.

Read almost a year ago. Has Japan pulled out of the "Coalition of the Willing" (or bribed and threatened with sanctions)?

[Oversea Visitor]

4. Haha

Even here at DU there is much denial about this reality.
Oh well this is something you have to live with
It will rear its ugly head in the future
I have read enough of this to understand that there is no way to cover up this.

[aquart]

6. I so wish the initials weren't DU.

[u4ic]

5. One researcher ties it to a mycoplasma infection

in over half of GWS cases: http://www.immed.org/illness/gulfwar_illness_research.html

It is especially suspect when returning service people came home and their families became ill, too.

from http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000161.htm

This is a huge scandal that absolutely dwarfs Watergate. The type of mycoplasma we identified was highly unusual and it almost certainly couldn't occur naturally. It has one gene from the HIV-1 virus - but only one gene. This meant that it almost certainly was an artificially modified microbeóaltered purposely by scientists! When we looked at the history of mycoplasma research we found that the military had funded mycoplasma 'vaccine testing' in a Texas prison well before the Gulf War. Ths testing had been done by a biotech firm in Houston. When we checked with the prison we learned that many of the prioners involvedóplus prison guards and family members were currently ill with the same symptoms as Gulf War syndrome. Further, we were able to study samples of these prisoners' blood and found they were infected with the same unique mycoplasma that was infecting Gulf War veterans!"
—Dr. Garth Nicolson (Institute for Molecular Medicine), National Enquirer (owned and operated by OSS/CIA agent Alexander Pope), "Gulf War G.I.s Poisoned by American Germ Weapons - Scientist Blows Lid Off Huge Govt. Cover-up," April 2, 1996 (video lecture: Gulf War Syndrome - Fact or Coverup?)


It also could be a cocktail of drugs and vaccines (possibly coupled with genetics) that could have caused it.

[TheWraith]

7. You're citing the National Enquirer?

Sorry, but there's no credibility in them there hills.

[donsu]

8. your head is still in the sand

lots of factual info out there for you to learn

[silvermachine]

9. Oh, you noticed that too?

n/t

[TheWraith]

11. Yes, and none of it comes from the National Enquirer.

The difference between being informed and wearing a tin foil hat is a very wide one.

[philb]

14. More credible than that of the original post here; see posts 10 and 13

how do you decide the credibility of a source?
being published in a medical journal doesn't mean much these days,
because the medical establishment including most medical journals are
controlled by the Pharmaceuticals and politics these days.
As recent editiors who resigned from the 2 leading U.S. medical journals
have disclosed recently. Their statements have likely been posted here before.
In this case National Enquirer information was correct, and that of the info in the medical journal bogus.

JAMA and NEJM

[OhioChick]

10. Good post

Professor Garth Nicholson has been researching this for years.

http://www.immed.org/

http://www.immed.org/letters.htm

And more from Professor Nicholson:

Mycoplasmal Infections in Chronic Illnesses: Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndromes, Gulf War Illness, HIV-AIDS and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Garth L. Nicolson, PhD, Marwan Y. Nasralla, PhD, Joerg Haier, MD, PhD,
Robert Irwin, MD, Nancy L. Nicolson, PhD, and Richard Ngwenya, MD

The Institute for Molecular Medicine, 15162 Triton Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92649 and
James Mobb Immune Enhancement, Harare, Zimbabwe

ABSTRACTInvasive bacterial infections are associated with several acute and chronic illnesses, including: Aerodigestive Diseases such as Asthma, Pneumonia, Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Rheumatoid Diseases, such as Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA); Immunosuppression Diseases such as HIV-AIDS; Genitourinary Infections and Chronic Fatigue Illnesses such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) and Gulf War Illnesses (GWI). It is now apparent that such infections could be causative, cofactors or opportunistic agents in a variety of illnesses. Using Forensic Polymerase Chain Reaction we have looked for the presence of one class of invasive infection (mycoplasmal infections) inside blood leukocyte samples from patients with CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ), FMS, RA and GWI. There was a significant difference between symptomatic CFS, FMS, GWI and RA patients with positive mycoplasmal infections of any species (45-63%) and healthy positive controls (~9%) (P<0.001). This difference was even greater when specific species (M. fermentans, M. homonis, M. penetrans, M. pneumoniae) were detected. Except for GWI, most patients had multiple mycoplasmal infections (more than one species of mycoplasma). Patients with different diagnoses but overlapping signs and symptoms often have mycoplasmal infections, and such mycoplasma-positive patients generally respond to multiple cycles of particular antibiotics (doxycycline, minocycline, ciprofloxacin, azithromycin and clarithromycin). Multiple cycles of these antibiotics plus nutritional support appear to be necessary for successful treatment. In addition, immune enhancement and other supplements appear to help these patients regain their health. Other chronic infections may also be involved to various degrees with or without mycoplasmal infections in causing patient morbidity in chronic illnesses.

http://www.immed.org/publications/fatigue_illness/ms99.html



A good read: "A Common Disease Agent Weaponized"

http://www.mercola.com/2001/sep/8/mycoplasma.htm

[Nordmadr]

12. Once irradiated...N/T

[philb]

13. This study appears to be a cover-up rather than a serious study

Previous studies by those treating the Gulf War patients already identified that more than the numbers shown here were
affected and the causes were identified as toxic exposures including mercury and other toxics in the large numbers of vaccines
given soldiers going to war;
the soldiers were exposed to biological warfare agents- either intentionally or otherwise in the anthrax vaccine they were given;
many were exposed to a deadly mycoplasma strain that was genetically altered with an HIV gene.
Many soldiers were exposed to nerve gas and other biological agents during the war, especially those in the area where the
U.S. bombed facilities containing biological warfare supplies, spreading such widely in the area.
Many soldiers were also documented to have been exposed to depleted uranium, along with even more Iraqis. Much of Iraq is
now a toxic site that is affecting millions and will long into the future. And some of the biological agents that soldiers were
exposed to have been found to be contagious, and are affecting wives, children, pets, and friends of the soldiers infected.

Some of the documentation on this, which has been published in peer-reviewed studies and Gov't studies can be found at the
web site of Dr. Garth Nicholson, who is the number one expert on Gulf War Disease and is one of the main ones treating those
affected by the biological warfare agents.

Dr. Garth Nicholson, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, Calif., www.immed.org
& Michael Guthrie, R.Ph. ImmuneSupport.com 07 18 2001 Mycoplasmas – The Missing Link in Fatiguing Illnesses, www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm?ID=3066; & New Treatments for Chronic Infections Found in Fibromyalgia Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Gulf War Illnesses, www.immed.org/reports/autoimmune_illness/rep1.html ; & Prof. Garth L. Nicolson, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Other Fatigue Conditions, www.immed.org/illness/fatigue_illness_research.html; & Dr. G. Nicholson, Institute for Molecular Medicine, New Treatments for Chronic Infections Found in Fibromyalgia Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and Gulf War Illnesses, www.immed.org/reports/autoimmune_illness/rep1.html

Dr. Nicholson is one of the most prestigious researchers in his field and got involved with researching GWI since both his
wife and daughter were infected with the biological agents(micoplasma with HIV gene implanted). He cured them and then
started researching and treating Gulf War vets conditions for the Veterans Admin.
His daughter was exposed as a participant in the Gulf War, but I believe Dr. Nicholson's wife was exposed due to use of the
same agents experimenting on prisoners on death row in Texas prisions. The biologically altered mycoplasma strain was
highly contagious and affected other prisioners, prision guards, their families, and the general community in those areas.
Dr. Nicholson, who was the leading medical researcher at the Univ. of Texas got involved first because his wife was infected,
then later his daughter in the Gulf War.

[Megahurtz]

15. Mycoplasma Fermens Anyone?

A little Lyme Disease? Some Barium perhaps?
Hey, what are those unidentified white jets doing over us spraying clouds
back and forth in criss-cross patterns all the time?:sarcasm:

[soulcore]

16. indeed. what could they be.

http://www.stolenskies.net/database/thumbnails.php?album=60

it's all part of the same "solution" IMHO.

:tinfoilhat:

[lovuian]

17. :kick:

:kick:

[Clara T]

18. kick for info