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September 14th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
S. L. Baker
Natural News
Sept 14, 2011
More than 20 years after the end of the Gulf War, tens of thousands of US veterans are still complaining of a host of symptoms developed during or after their tour of duty.
They suffer from memory and concentration problems, chronic headaches, widespread pain, depression, balance disturbances, gastrointestinal problems, chronic fatigue and more. The latest figures from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs scientific advisory committee on the Gulf War illness show about 25 percent of the 700,000 military personnel deployed to the 1991 Persian Gulf War are affected.
The cause of what is often called Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) is still unknown but prime suspects are exposure to depleted uranium weapons, neurotoxic chemicals including pesticides, nerve gas, and multiple vaccines given to the soldiers by the military. Another explanation that has been widely circulated over the decades is that GWS is simply a bogus disease of malingerers and hypochondriacs — a condition that is “all in their heads.”
This dismissal of the suffering of veterans who insist they are severely ill with GWS has come from a wide spectrum of so-called experts including doctors, journalists and some government officials. For example, former New England Journal of Medicine editor Marcia Angell sarcastically called it a “will o the wisp” syndrome in a New York Times interview. And self-styled health claims debunker journalist and lawyer Michael Fumento have scoffed that anyone who hasn’t had the kind of symptoms GWS sufferers claim to experience would have to be an android.
Now there’s new and compelling evidence that GWS really is a disease that is, in fact, “in the heads” of veterans suffering with the cluster of health problems that make up the controversial syndrome. Specifically, it is in their brains.
A new study just published online in the journal Radiology documents blood flow abnormalities found in the brains of veterans with Gulf War illness that have persisted 20 years after the war. In some veterans, the blood flow abnormalities have gotten worse over time.
“We confirmed that abnormal blood flow continued or worsened over the 11-year span since first being diagnosed, which indicates that the damage is ongoing and lasts long term,” principal investigator Robert W. Haley, M.D., chief of epidemiology in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Clinical Sciences at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said in a statement to the media.
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The hippocampus is the part of the brain responsible for forming long-term memories and helping navigate space. The UT researchers noted that many of the GWS neurological symptoms, including memory loss, confusion, irritability and disorders in motion control, are clues that the hippocampus may be impaired.
For the just published study, Dr. Haley’s research team used a new technique called arterial spin labeled (ASL) MRI to assess hippocampal regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in 13 control participants and 35 patients with GWS. The scientists noted that there appears to be predominance of one of three types of symptoms in GWS patients : impaired cognition; confusion and ataxia (lack of voluntary muscle control); and central neuropathic (nerve) pain.
Each patient in the study first received intravenous infusions of saline and then, after 48 hours, an infusion of a short-acting cholinesterase inhibitor called physostigmine. Physostigmine is used to test how well the cholinergic system (a neurotransmitter system involved in the regulation of memory and learning) is working in the brain.
Richard W. Briggs, Ph.D., professor of radiology at UT Southwestern and co-author of the new research paper, pointed out in the media statement that scanning the brain after giving the cholinesterase inhibitor medication is particularly well suited to diagnosing Gulf War illness because it picks up brain abnormalities too subtle for regular MRIs to detect. “This allows us to make the diagnosis in a single two-hour session without the need for exposure to ionizing radiation,” Dr. Briggs said.
The findings replicated the results of a previous nuclear imaging test called a SPECT (single-photon emission computerized tomography) scan which was performed by Dr. Haley largely on the same group of veterans over a decade ago. The new study shows that the abnormal brain blood flow detected then had persisted.
In fact, the new findings revealed something else very troublesome: the brain abnormalities may have progressed 11 years after initial testing and nearly 20 years after the Gulf War, suggesting chronic alteration of hippocampal blood flow.
For more information:
http://www.rsna.org/Publications/rs…
http://www.naturalnews.com/Gulf_War…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/…
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D.U.
again…D.U.
get it right about the depleted part…
and what a half-life
nasty stuff
don’t get near it…
(how can so many sufferers not understand what’s been done to them?)
go dry off your cat in the microwave oven…
welcome home
Funny… Mith Adamth has a problem with blood flow to the brain as well. Is she a Gulf War vet? Just curious.
No need for all the technical medical analysis on these heroes of the meat grinder.
They can fit just perfectly well alongside first responders in those large plastic FEMA coffins.
They are the new fertilizer of the future.
The more they betray these people the less the chance that their victims will rise up and avenge themselves. What they do is make commercials applauding them for defending freedom while stabbing them in the back, You don’t get much lower than that.
It’s not just DU that is doing this stuff. It is the chemicals in the pharma garbage being handed out so freely.
Makes me wonder if they aren’t puting DU in the fking pills.
Can’t believe I am reading this here. Just change the DU to pharma as it’s the same damn thing.
Nerve pain, you have no fking idea assholes. Wish we could transfer it all to you and your loved ones to see how it feels.
Good luck veterans that have this. My heart really goes out to you.
BiGpharmakillZ Reply:
September 14th, 2011 at 11:27 am
And if they try to give you drugs to calm it, don’t touch them it will make you way worse.
I can’t believe that something as huge as the D.U. problem can still be covered up when there are so many families and loved ones involved……