[...]... Pyridostigmine Bromide, Sarin, Vaccines (IOM 2000); Gulf War and Health, Volume 2: Insecticides and Solvents (IOM 2003); Gulf War and Health, Volume 3: Fuels, Combustion Products, and Propellants (IOM 2005); and Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Sarin (IOM 2004) Three other studies are underway: one examining the long-term sequelae of infectious diseases that are endemic to the Persian Gulf, ... troops arrived in the gulf, they had no way of knowing whether they would be exposed to biologic and chemical weapons Iraq previously had used such weapons in fighting Iran and in attacks on the Kurdish minority in Iraq Military leaders feared that the use of such weapons in the gulf could result in the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans Therefore, in addition to the standard vaccinations before... Many of the exposures are not specific to the Gulf War, but the number and combination of agents to which the veterans might have been exposed make it difficult to determine whether any agent or combination of agents is the cause of Gulf War veterans’ illnesses Limitations of Exposure Information Determining whether Gulf War veterans face an increased risk of illness because of their exposures during the. .. written-up in detail and typically are not included in tables COMPLEXITIES IN RESOLVING GULF WAR AND HEALTH ISSUES Investigations of the health effects of past wars have often focused on narrowly defined hazards or health outcomes, such as infectious diseases (for example, typhoid and malaria) during the Civil War, specific chemical hazards (for example, mustard gas in World War I and Agent Orange and other... numbers of US personnel injured or killed during combat in the Gulf War, the troops, as in any war, faced the fear of death, injury, or capture by the enemy After the INTRODUCTION 15 war, there was the potential for other exposures, including US demolition of a munitions storage complex at Khamisiyah, Iraq, which—unbeknownst to demolition troops at the time—contained stores of sarin and cyclosarin The. .. 2000 Gulf War and Health, Volume 1: Depleted Uranium, Sarin, Pyridostigmine Bromide, Vaccines Washington, DC: National Academy Press IOM 2003 Gulf War and Health, Volume 2: Insecticides and Solvents Washington, DC: The National Academies Press IOM 2004 Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Sarin Washington, DC: The National Academies Press IOM 2005 Gulf War and Health, Volume 3: Fuels, Combustion... symptoms and illnesses At the request of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) appointed a committee (the Committee on Gulf War and Health: A Review of the Medical Literature Relative to Gulf War Veterans’ Health) to review that body of literature and to summarize what is known about the current status of the veterans’ health Previous IOM committees and their reports focused... EC, 3rd 1995 The impact of infectious diseases on the health of U.S troops deployed to the Persian Gulf during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm Clinical Infectious Diseases 20(6):1497-1504 Hyams KC, Wignall FS, Roswell R 1996 War syndromes and their evaluation: From the U.S Civil War to the Persian Gulf War Annals of Internal Medicine 125(5):398-405 IOM (Institute of Medicine) 1995 Health Consequences... of Service During the Persian Gulf War: Initial Findings and Recommendations for Immediate Action Washington, DC: National Academy Press IOM 1996 Health Consequences of Service During the Persian Gulf War: Recommendations for Research and Information Systems Washington, DC: National Academy Press IOM 1999 Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health Washington, DC: National Academy Press IOM 2000 Gulf War and. .. during deployment and in some cases after deployment Stress is known to have serious acute and chronic health effects, but at the time of the Gulf War relatively little attention was given to reduction of stress and its consequences The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the US Congress have secured the assistance of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in evaluating the scientific literature regarding . drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee. organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the