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Beef allergy and the persian gulf syndrome

open access: yesMedical Hypotheses, 1995
It is suggested that the Persian Gulf Syndrome (PGS) is caused by beef allergy. In the first symptomless phase, as a result of an energetic US Army immunizing program, using sera with adjuvants to produce detectable antibody levels, the subjects not only developed immunity to the targeted substances, but also became sensitized to one or more of the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

War and the Contest Over National Identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper looks at a recent historical moment in which the American national identity was defined and contested in the public arena. The Persian Gulf crisis of 1990-91 presents a case in point in which official actors attempted to define the American ...
Coles, Roberta
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Frankenstein: The United States in Afghanistan during the 1980s and 1990s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
For nearly the past quarter century, the United States has been involved in covert operations in a region of the world that most people could not locate on a map. Invisible wars being fought by the United States and other foreign intelligence agencies in
Szymanski, Michael R
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Don't Increase Federal Gasoline Taxes - Abolish Them [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Many experts believe that gasoline taxes should be increased for a variety of reasons. Their arguments are unpersuasive. Oil is not disappearing, and when it becomes more expensive, market agents will substitute away from gasoline to save money. The link
Jerry Taylor, Peter Van Doren
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A chronic fatigue syndrome – related proteome in human cerebrospinal fluid

open access: yesBMC Neurology, 2005
Background Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Persian Gulf War Illness (PGI), and fibromyalgia are overlapping symptom complexes without objective markers or known pathophysiology. Neurological dysfunction is common.
Baraniuk James N   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting Health Impacts of the World Trade Center Disaster: 1. Halogenated hydrocarbons, symptom syndromes, secondary victimization, and the burdens of history [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The recent attack on the World Trade Center, in addition to direct injury and psychological trauma, has exposed a vast population to dioxins, dibenzofurans, related endocrine disruptors, and a multitude of other physiologically active chemicals arising ...
Wallace, Deborah, Wallace, Rodrick
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Metabolic features of Gulf War illness.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundMore than 230,000 veterans-about 1/3 of US personnel deployed in the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War-developed chronic, multi-symptom health problems now called "Gulf War illness" (GWI), for which mechanisms and objective diagnostic signatures ...
Robert K Naviaux   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impaired immune function in Gulf War Illness

open access: yesBMC Medical Genomics, 2009
Background Gulf War Illness (GWI) remains a serious health consequence for at least 11,000 veterans of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s. Our understanding of the health consequences that resulted remains inadequate, and this is of great concern with
Lin Jin-Mann   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Iranome: A catalogue of genomic variations in the Iranian population

open access: yes, 2019
Considering the application of human genome variation databases in precision medicine, population-specific genome projects are continuously being developed. However, the Middle Eastern population is underrepresented in current databases.
Akbari, M.   +28 more
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Oxidative Stress and Mitochondrial Injury in Chronic Multisymptom Conditions: From Gulf War Illness to Autism Spectrum Disorder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Overlapping chronic multisymptom illnesses (CMI) include Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity, and Gulf War illness (GWI), and subsets of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Beatrice A. Golomb
core   +1 more source

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