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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, May 30, 2022) This Memorial Day, ask the U.S. government to show respect for veterans by recognizing Gulf War Illness (GWI) and honoring our commitment to those who have served the country. New research is providing strong causal evidence that Gulf War Illness (GWI) is the result of exposure to sarin gas, an organophosphate nerve agent, when Iraqi chemical weapons storage and production facilities were bombed during the Gulf War. The findings, published earlier this month in Environmental Health Perspectives<\/a>, have important implications for the hundreds of thousands of American service members suffering from a constellation of chronic symptoms without a true understanding of how they became sick. \u201cQuite simply, our findings prove that Gulf War illness was caused by sarin, which was released when we bombed Iraqi chemical weapons storage and production facilities,\u201d said Robert Haley, MD, lead author of the study and epidemiologist at University of Texas Southwestern. \u201cThere are still more than 100,000 Gulf War veterans who are not getting help for this illness and our hope is that these findings will accelerate the search for better treatment.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Tell the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Senate to provide disability benefits to those veterans suffering from Gulf War Illness.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n

Veterans of the Gulf War are still fighting for care.\u00a0A 2017 Government Accountability Office report found<\/a>\u00a0that 80% of Gulf War veteran disability claims are denied by U.S. Veteran\u2019s Affairs. GWI claims are approved at a rate roughly three times lower than all other potential claimed disabilities. With strong data now on the cause, VA must move rapidly to ensure American veterans get the treatment they deserve.<\/p>\r\n

Veterans dealing with Gulf War Illness have described a range of ongoing symptoms, from fever to fatigue, headaches, night sweats and insomnia, difficulty finding words, issues with concentration and retaining information, sexual dysfunction, respiratory problems, dizziness, skin rashes, joint and body pain and diarrhea and indigestion. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs refers to the illness as a \u201cchronic multisymptom illness.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 3967, Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2021 (with 100 cosponsors\u201497 Democrats, 3 Republicans), which passed the House in March, 2022 and was sent to the Senate, would provide broad coverage for toxic exposure during military service, combining 15 previous bills. The Senate has not taken up this legislation. S. 1039, improving compensation for disabilities occurring in Persian Gulf War veterans, was introduced by Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ).<\/p>\r\n

Tell the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Senate to provide disability benefits to those veterans suffering from Gulf War Illness.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n

Letter to Secretary Denis Richard McDonough, Department of Veterans Affairs<\/u><\/p>\r\n

This Memorial Day, please ensure that the U.S. government shows respect for veterans by recognizing Gulf War Illness (GWI) and honoring our commitment to those who have served the country. New research is providing strong causal evidence that Gulf War Illness (GWI) is the result of exposure to sarin gas, an organophosphate nerve agent, when Iraqi chemical weapons storage and production facilities were bombed during the Gulf War. The findings, published earlier this month in\u00a0Environmental Health Perspectives<\/a>, have important implications for the hundreds of thousands of American service members suffering from a constellation of chronic symptoms without a true understanding of how they became sick. \u201cQuite simply, our findings prove that Gulf War illness was caused by sarin, which was released when we bombed Iraqi chemical weapons storage and production facilities,\u201d said Robert Haley, MD, lead author of the study and epidemiologist at University of Texas Southwestern. \u201cThere are still more than 100,000 Gulf War veterans who are not getting help for this illness and our hope is that these findings will accelerate the search for better treatment.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Veterans of the Gulf War are still fighting for care.\u00a0A 2017 Government Accountability Office report found<\/a>\u00a0that 80% of Gulf War veteran disability claims are denied by U.S. Veteran\u2019s Affairs. GWI claims are approved at a rate roughly three times lower than all other potential claimed disabilities. With strong data now on the cause, VA must move rapidly to ensure American veterans get the treatment they deserve.<\/p>\r\n

Veterans dealing with Gulf War Illness have described a range of ongoing symptoms, from fever to fatigue, headaches, night sweats and insomnia, difficulty finding words, issues with concentration and retaining information, sexual dysfunction, respiratory problems, dizziness, skin rashes, joint and body pain and diarrhea and indigestion. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs refers to the illness as a \u201cchronic multisymptom illness.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Please take action immediately to fully serve with health care and disability benefits the veterans who have served our country.<\/p>\r\n

Thank you.<\/p>\r\n

Letter to U.S. Senators<\/u><\/p>\r\n

This Memorial Day, please ensure that the U.S. government shows respect for veterans by recognizing Gulf War Illness (GWI) and honoring our commitment to those who have served the country. New research is providing strong causal evidence that Gulf War Illness (GWI) is the result of exposure to sarin gas, an organophosphate nerve agent, when Iraqi chemical weapons storage and production facilities were bombed during the Gulf War. The findings, published earlier this month in\u00a0Environmental Health Perspectives<\/a>, have important implications for the hundreds of thousands of American service members suffering from a constellation of chronic symptoms without a true understanding of how they became sick. \u201cQuite simply, our findings prove that Gulf War illness was caused by sarin, which was released when we bombed Iraqi chemical weapons storage and production facilities,\u201d said Robert Haley, MD, lead author of the study and epidemiologist at University of Texas Southwestern. \u201cThere are still more than 100,000 Gulf War veterans who are not getting help for this illness and our hope is that these findings will accelerate the search for better treatment.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Veterans of the Gulf War are still fighting for care.\u00a0A 2017 Government Accountability Office report found<\/a>\u00a0that 80% of Gulf War veteran disability claims are denied by U.S. Veteran\u2019s Affairs. GWI claims are approved at a rate roughly three times lower than all other potential claimed disabilities. With strong data now on the cause, VA must move rapidly to ensure American veterans get the treatment they deserve.<\/p>\r\n

Veterans dealing with Gulf War Illness have described a range of ongoing symptoms, from fever to fatigue, headaches, night sweats and insomnia, difficulty finding words, issues with concentration and retaining information, sexual dysfunction, respiratory problems, dizziness, skin rashes, joint and body pain and diarrhea and indigestion. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs refers to the illness as a \u201cchronic multisymptom illness.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Please take action immediately to fully serve the veterans who have served the country by taking up H.R. 3967, Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2021, which passed the House in March, 2022 and was sent to the Senate for consideration. Also, please cosponsor S. 1039, improving compensation for disabilities occurring in Persian Gulf War veterans, which was introduced by Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ).<\/p>\r\n

Please show your support of veterans with action by supporting desperately needed health care and disability benefits for illnesses contracted during their service to our country.<\/p>\r\n

Thank you.<\/p>\r\n

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The findings, published earlier this month in Environmental Health Perspectives, have important implications for the hundreds of thousands of American service members suffering from a constellation of chronic symptoms without a true understanding of how they became sick. \u201cQuite simply, our findings prove that Gulf War illness was caused by sarin, which was released when we bombed Iraqi chemical weapons storage and production facilities,\u201d said Robert Haley, MD, lead author of the study and epidemiologist at University of Texas Southwestern. \u201cThere are still more than 100,000 Gulf War veterans who are not getting help for this illness and our hope is that these findings will accelerate the search for better treatment.\u201d Tell the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Senate to provide disability benefits to those veterans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gulf-war-syndrome","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThis Memorial Day Show Your Support for Veterans Harmed by Toxic Chemical Exposure - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2022\/05\/this-memorial-day-show-your-support-for-veterans-harmed-by-toxic-chemical-exposure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Memorial Day Show Your Support for Veterans Harmed by Toxic Chemical Exposure - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Beyond Pesticides, May 30, 2022) This Memorial Day, ask the U.S. government to show respect for veterans by recognizing Gulf War Illness (GWI) and honoring our commitment to those who have served the country. 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