Its not that simple if you were to look at the govt sponsored tests on vets etc in Canada, US and UK Erwin.

My own view is that Gulf sickness probably does have something to do with it along with the cocktail of injections taken by the troops in Gulf war1....

The official govt lines of enquiry though seem to go along the lines of those in UK, whereby they have tested some of the vets against a similar age and fitness grouping of population who did not go to Gulf etc, and then compare health and fitness problems...They at least in the UK have not found anything to ascertain the reasons, although they continue to test...Canada had an indepenant test regime which seemed to point to DU as a cause but has since been talked down by govt medical professionals.

I dont know or offer a reason for Gulf sickness but I dont think these vets are complaining about just nothing. Some of the birth defects seem to be pretty horrendous.

And my trust in my govt to investigate such things has been impaired by the crap they did and put out to excuse Porton Down trials and the Nuclear test vets of the fiftees.

I had two friends volunteer for Porton Down common cold tests in late seventies, both are ill both are mentioned in the case against the govt, but then both are like me, no longer young and suceptable to illnesses as we get older I suppose...

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