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US links motor neurone disease with Gulf war service. (News).

British Medical Journal

| January 12, 2002 | Charatan, Fred | COPYRIGHT 2003 British Medical Association. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

US secretary of veterans affairs Anthony Principi has declared that motor neurone disease is connected with service in the Gulf war.

He is the first to connect a specific illness with service in the Gulf war, and his decision will lead to full disability and survivor benefits for those with the disease, the cause of which is unknown.

Last month the Department of Veterans Affairs described preliminary results of a government sponsored study involving 2.5 million US servicemen and servicewomen. The study was carried out at Duke University and the Veterans Administration Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, and was directed by Dr Ronald Horner, director of …

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