Hospitalizations for Unexplained Illnesses among U.S. Veterans of the Persian Gulf War
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Hospitalizations for unexplained illnesses among U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War.
Persian Gulf War veterans have reported a variety of symptoms, many of which have not led to conventional diagnoses. We ascertained all active-duty U.S. military personnel deployed to the Persian Gulf War (552,111) and all Gulf War era military personnel not deployed (1,479,751) and compared their postwar hospitalization records (until 1 April 1996) for one or more of 77 diagnoses under the Int...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1080-6040
DOI: 10.3201/eid0402.980208