BBC NEWS ONLINE Monday, 30 July, 2001, 15:25 GMT 16:25 UK Gulf War vaccine row A scientist claims she has found stronger evidence that a alleged ingredient of vaccines given to Gulf War troops may have made them ill. However, a UK defence minister has insisted that the ingredient, squalene, was never given to British personnel in vaccinations. Research says veterans of the 1991 conflict appear more likely to suffer a variety of severe and long-lasting illnesses than soldiers who served elsewhere. Many believe that the different combinations of symptoms, such as severe headaches, short-term memory loss, extreme fatigue and aching joints, are manifestations of one illness - "Gulf War syndrome". However, despite theories about the origin of these symptoms, no single cause has ever been established. And some doctors hotly dispute the idea that these different illnesses could be related to a single cause. Full text: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1465000/1465144.stm Video - Col. Redmond Handy quit his Pentagon post in protest at the military's mandatory anthrax vaccination programme linked to Gulf War Syndrome http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1465000/video/_1465144_gulf01_handy_vi.ram
