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Article: Exposure to anthrax vaccine associated with Gulf War Syndrome.(Brief Article)
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- Vaccine Weekly
- Article date:
- June 12, 2002
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2002 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Roxanne Nelson, staff medical writer - Numerous factors have been considered as possible causes of the unexplained illness reported by veterans of the Gulf War, and researchers in Boston say that different sets of risk factors may affect subgroups of this population.
These conclusions were reached after analyzing the results of a survey that examined the prevalence of both physical and psychological symptoms and identified risk factors among a group of Gulf War veterans at Ft. Devens, explained researcher S.P. Proctor, of the VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston Environmental Hazards Center, and colleagues. This ...