May 17, 2022
Source: Cleveland
Photo Source: Unsplash, Camilo Jimenez
American soldiers with the 82nd Airborne on duty protected by anti-chemical suits, wash down a Humvee during training in Saudi Arabia, in 1990. A recent study points to the nerve gas sarin as the cause of Gulf War illness.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The nerve gas sarin caused Gulf War illness, a new study suggests, and drug overdose deaths in the United States rose in 2021. A new detailed genetic study suggests that the nerve gas sarin was the underlying cause of Gulf War illness, a collection of unexplained and chronic symptoms affecting veterans of the Persian Gulf War. The findings, from researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, were recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives. An editorial written by leading environmental epidemiologists accompanied the paper. The research group found that veterans with exposure to sarin were more likely to develop Gulf War illness, and that the risk was modulated by a gene that normally allows some people’s bodies to better break down the nerve gas. Gulf War veterans with a weak variant of the gene who were exposed to sarin were more likely to develop symptoms of the illness than other exposed veterans who had the strong form of the gene, researchers said. After the Gulf War, more than a quarter of the U.S. and coalition veterans reported chronic symptoms, including fatigue, fever, night sweats, memory and concentration problems, diarrhea, sexual dysfunction, and chronic body pain. Sarin is a toxic human-made nerve agent, first developed as a pesticide, that has been used in chemical warfare. Production was banned in 1997. The U.S. military has confirmed that chemical agents, including sarin, were detected in Iraq during the Gulf War.
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