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Combat ‘Open-Air Burn Pits’ Ruin Immune Systems

23 May 2012

Pentagon officials have consistently reassured personnel that there was no “specific evidence” connecting the two. But now, only days after Danger Room uncovered a memo suggesting that Army officials knew how dangerous the pits were, an animal study is offering up new scientific evidence that links burn pits to depleted immune systems.

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Combat ‘Burn Pits’ Ruin Immune Systems, Study Shows

Since returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, an untold number of soldiers have come down with puzzling health problems. Many of them are pointing the finger at a single culprit: the open-air "burn pits" that incinerated trash -- from human waste to computer…

WIRED.COM|BY KATIE DRUMMOND

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Horrible..that said we need to know these things

[Virginia Foulk]

Not sure what happened here, but I'd posted a lot of information from the following 200 page report that my son-in-law received. It explained  most of the symptoms he was suffering and what was part of the cause.  Some was the pesticides, and the drugs our government was giving the veterans to prevent other health issues.  He received this shortly after he returned from Iraq - as a Military Police in the National Guard, his patrol was the toxic dumps. And his symptoms were documented in the book. ALS, MS, other issues were more prevalent in the returning Gulf War veterans.

The report : Scientific Progress in Understanding Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses:  

Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses  September, 2004

U.S.Department of Veterans Affairs

2200 S.W. Gage Blvd. (T-GW)

Topeka, KS 66622

E-mail: [e-mail]

Website: www.va.gov/RAC-GWVI

Don't know what happened to my original attempt to post,. Think I forgot to click on add reply. Don't have time to repeat all that I posted, but if others are interested, I did check out this site - it is still there, and there is a way to print out the report.   One thing I did find that is making me a bit angry "Process in understanding Gulf War veterans' illnesses has been hindered by lack of coordination and availability of data resources maintained by the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs."  And it is still going on now.

[Pody Hunnicutt]

TITF

[Virginia Foulk]

Same thing that is now going on against the Veterans and the medical VA system.  Seems our wonderful Government really doesn't appreciate our armed service members.