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The tale of the Gulf War syndrome, affecting thousands of war veterans, is getting curiouser and curiouser. New studies indicate that the disease and hospitalisation rates of those who served in the war and those who did not, were not dissimilar. Published in the recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the two large US government studies cover nearly every veteran who served in the Gulf War, more than half a million people, and an equal number of those who did not serve there.
The medical fraternity has perceived the findings as
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