Gulf War Syndrome & Chronice Fatigue Syndrome

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This is from the Mycoplasma list. I would like to know if anyone knows anything

about paraoxenase which protects the body of some people who have high levels of

it from Sarin nerve gas.

Jenny

 

 

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" ... . PERSIAN GULF WAR VETERANS

The Gulf War Mycoplasma Study showed that nearly all the Gulf War

veterans who tested positive for mycoplasma infections were positive for

Mycoplasma fermentans. Mycoplasma genitalium was also found and a very

small percentage tested positive for Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

We recommend that all Gulf War veterans also get tested for uranium poisoning,

antibodies to experimental vaccine adjuvants such as squalene, and

if there has been any exposure to organophosphate pesticides or

sarin nerve gas get tested for the blood enzyme, paraoxonase. ... "

 

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VIDEO may provide Gulf War Syndrome breakthrough

By BYRON HARRIS / WFAA-TV

WFAA-TV, Dallas,TX,USA - June 29, 2004

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/localnews/investigates/stories/wfaa04\

0628_am_gulfwarfolo.2a89953e7.html

 

With the handover of authority Monday in Iraq, the second Gulf War is in a new

stage.

 

However, tens of thousands of veterans from the last Gulf War have been living

in limbo for a decade. They're sick, but nobody knows why - yet there now is a

potential breakthrough on the illness that's come to be known as Gulf War

Syndrome.

 

At the center of this breakthrough is a video taken south of Baghdad near a town

called Khamisiyah in March 1991. The clip is scratchy and jumpy, but for

thousands of sick veterans, it contains the most important pictures of the first

Gulf War.

 

In the video, Army engineers blow up one of Saddam Hussein's ammunition dumps.

Unknown to them, some of it contains the deadly nerve gas sarin. As the

explosion clouds spread skyward, the plume of dust and nerve gas exposes 100,000

- perhaps hundreds of thousands - of U.S. troops to the extremely toxic chemical

agent.

 

During a recent hearing in Washington, an Army Major General admitted something

the military has denied for years: that there could be a disease from serving in

the Gulf, caused by exposure to sarin. It's the disease others call Gulf War

Syndrome.

 

" Yes, there may be some soldiers from the Gulf War that were affected because of

a low-level exposure to sarin, " the Major General told a committee at a hearing

on the matter.

 

" I think it is quite plausible, quite believable, that there is damage from

low-level exposure to nerve agents, and that can be a basis of, in fact,

multiple diseases and nerve dysfunction, " said Dr. Jonathan Perlin of the

Veterans Administration.

 

As troops moved across Iraq during the first Gulf War, bombing and demolition

destroyed a total of four ammo dumps that contained sarin. The Department of

Defense estimates that the plumes from those explosions rose hundreds of feet

into the air, but new models from the General Accounting Office said the plumes

may have gone much higher, and blown over troops throughout the southern theater

of the war.

 

For years, epidemiologist Dr. Robert Haley of UT Southwestern Medical Center in

Dallas has been alone in saying Gulf War Syndrome exists.

 

At the hearings in Washington, other scientists took his side. His research

indicates that some people have an enzyme that protects them from nerve gas,

while others do not.

 

Also, he said different people suffer different symptoms from low-level

exposure.

 

" When this nerve cloud came over the troops and rained fallout and they were all

exposed, (it was) absorbed through the skin through breathing and so forth, "

Haley said. " The ones who had high levels of this enzyme in their blood from

birth just fought it off - it destroyed it so it didn't hurt them - but the ones

who were born with low levels of paraoxonase, the nerve gas was able to go right

into their blood. "

 

During the first Gulf War, numerous nerve gas detection alarms went off in

several places. As estimates of the height of the gas plume have grown, the

Department of Defense has raised its estimate of the number of soldiers exposed

from zero to 300 to 5,000 to 98,000, and now to 101,000.

 

Experts said that number is low.

" 700,000 soldiers, including people in Kuwait, including civilian populations in

Saudi Arabia, may have - repeat, may have - been exposed, " said Keith Rhodes of

the General Accounting Office.

 

" There is a tipping point now both in the science, and in the reason for taking

action, " said Jim Binns of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War

Illnesses.

 

Taking action will be expensive. Once the government admits veterans actually

have a disease, it will have to compensate them, and that will cost money.

 

The government has already spent $240 million to determine whether Gulf War

Syndrome is a disease. That's small consolation to the veterans who could have

used that money for treatment.

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