The gift that keeps on giving:
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Gulf War veterans exposed to chemical munitions at Khamisiyah, Iraq are nearly twice as likely as their unexposed peers from the same war to die from brain cancer, according to a report in the American Journal of Public Health.
“We found an approximately twofold excess of brain cancer deaths, 12 to 13 excess deaths in a population of 100,000 veterans, associated with possible exposure to chemical warfare agents,” Tim A. Bullman, from the Department of Veteran Affairs in Washington, DC, and colleagues report.
susie,
it says “chemical munitions” not DU.
they blew up chemical weapons at that plant and many vets claim they were exposed to them due to poor procedures and techniques used to blow up the weapons dumps.
From what I read, the dump was blown up by the U.S. during the first Gulf War and pretty much stripped bare by the second one. They’re not clear on which vets were exposed - and when. But it’s a start, I suppose.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/gulfwar/whiteper/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10472954&dopt=Abstract