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Gulf war illness not caused by depleted uranium from munitions, study shows


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IMAGE: Robert Haley, M.D., here reviewing brain scans of Gulf War veterans, has been studying the illness for 27 years
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Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center
DALLAS - Feb. 18, 2021 - Inhalation of depleted uranium from exploding munitions did not lead to Gulf War illness (GWI) in veterans deployed in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, a new study co-authored by a leading researcher of the disease at UT Southwestern suggests. The findings, published today in
Scientific Reports, help eliminate a long-suspected cause of GWI that has attracted international concern for three decades.
Using high-precision multicollector mass spectrometry for the first time in such a study, Robert Haley, M.D., director of the division of epidemiology at UTSW, and Randall Parrish, Ph.D., professor of isotope geology at the University of Portsmouth in England, collaborated to examine a representative sampling of veterans urine maintained by UT Southwestern s ....

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