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War veterans demand focused study on depleted uranium’s health effects

The veterans want help with their health conditions and treatment now. Their pain is real physiological damage.

Depleted Uranium Research-DU affects DNA, Veterans Today, March 20, 2010 by Denise Nichols · -More Research Indicated To Assess Health Risk. The research on depleted uranium comes out of French researchers that examined the manner DNA is affected by enriched and depleted uranium. The metal or chemical effect it seems is the more important in depleted uranium exposure.

Questions remain on the problem of inhalation and ingestion of depleted uranium in the sands of Saudi/Iraq that has a high silica content and the health effects that would be seen. Questions also remain on syngestic health effects when you add in other toxic exposures experienced by Gulf War Veterans.

It is time for very focused research on these questions that should be led by the veterans that can speak to the exposures. Their questions need to be answered sooner rather than later, since it has been 19 years. The veterans want help with their health conditions and treatment now. Their pain is real physiological damage.

What has happened to their organs and their blood?What diagnosed illness are showing up and what are the hard numbers for each diagnosed illness in gulf war veterans? It seems that information should be just as important as the undiagnosed situation. The veterans and their families want that type of information and that is why they have asked for registries of each diagnosed illness, that would allow all veterans, even if they do not go to the VA, to enter their medical information.

The veterans want a listing of deaths, cause of deaths, age of death, and units that individuals were assigned during the Gulf War. These are not unreasonable requests.These requests and the information gleamed from such registries would also assist medical professionals and researchers in answering these veterans concerns. Below is the article on depleted uranium written by Paul Eubrig, DVM and below that is the scientific abstract of the actual research…..

Depleted Uranium Research-DU affects DNA : Veterans Today

March 22, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | depleted uranium, MIDDLE EAST | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium