The National Institutes of Health and United States Department of Veterans Affairs have launched a 5-year study to understand the chronic symptoms of Gulf War...
Haley published a paper last year identifying sarin gas — a nerve agent that attacks the brain that was detected in Iraq during the war — as a potential cause of Gulf War illness. Haley hopes the NIH and VA’s national study will ultimately lead to treatments for Gulf War veterans, the youngest of whom are now 50.In the ’90s, Perot invited Haley to a meeting. Since the Gulf War ended, Perot said, he had been hearing from veterans who had fallen sick.
Dr. Robert Haley of UT Southwestern visits with two longtime GWI research supporters, former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and the late Ross Perot, at a campus event in 2006. “There was a lot of skepticism [that] had formed early,” he said. “And you know, whoever gets the message out first tends to win the day, until you just completely prove it wrong.”that found that veterans who recalled hearing chemical nerve gas alarms during their deployment were more likely to develop Gulf War illness.
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