Environmental Exposure Report
Environmental Exposure reports are reports of what we know today about certain events of the 1990-1991 Gulf War. This particular environmental exposure report focuses on US personnel exposure to particulate matter and the related health effects that may be associated with this exposure. This is an interim, not a final, report. We hope you will read this and contact us with any information that would help us better understand the issues reported here. With you help, we will be able to report more accurately on the subject of particulate matter exposures experienced during the Gulf War. Please contact my office to report any new information by calling
Last Update: July 12, 2000
Many veterans of the Gulf War have expressed concern their unexplained illnesses may result from their experiences in that war. In response to veterans concerns, the Department of Defense (DoD) established a task force in June 1995 to investigate those incidents and circumstances relating to possible causes. The Office of the Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses assumed responsibility for these investigations on November 12, 1996, and gathered information on particulate matter exposures.
To inform the public about the progress of this office, the Department of Defense publishes on the Internet and elsewhere accounts related to the possible causes of illness among Gulf War veterans, along with documentary evidence or personal testimony used in compiling the accounts. This environmental exposure report is such an account.
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