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Title: Gulf War Syndrome: was it the Sarin nerve gas?
Post by: MillCreek on May 11, 2022, 07:14:47 PM

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cause-of-mysterious-gulf-war-syndrome-finally-uncovered-major-new-study-claims/?fbclid=IwAR04WO9agvhj6309mWzrKf3AfDLt1xEn76Mxf3pKKhlXGFAU5ZSxMPBvcrw

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP9009

If you have a less effective variant of a gene that breaks down Sarin and were exposed to Sarin in the Gulf, this may explain Gulf War Syndrome.

Title: Re: Gulf War Syndrome: was it the Sarin nerve gas?
Post by: MechAg94 on May 11, 2022, 07:37:43 PM

Interesting. 

They mention the source as the US bombing of Iraqi chemical weapons factories/stockpiles.  Our military barely went into Iraq in the first Gulf War.  Were those chemical weapons in the South?  Not sure I remember all the details.  Sounds like there is more to the story as far as when people may have been exposed. 

Title: Re: Gulf War Syndrome: was it the Sarin nerve gas?
Post by: Bogie on May 11, 2022, 08:03:58 PM

From what I've heard, the general feeling among a bunch of folks is...
 
"If there was smoke, there was bad stuff."