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From: steve burley [mailto:steveburley@hotmail.com]
Via. Robert P. Walsh [mailto:rpwalsh@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:48 PM
To: ColonelDan
Small part below extracted from web site
http://www.freedommag.org/english/vol35I1/page03.htm Apparent Cause -Neglected Cure
Garth Nicolson, Ph.D., and his wife, Nancy Nicolson, Ph.D., initially
conducted research into Gulf War Illness at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
at the University of Texas in Houston. There, the Nicolsons isolated an
apparent cause of sick veterans' symptoms in a possible component of a
Saddam biological cocktail - the microorganism known as Mycoplasma
fermentans incognitus (MFI), which can cause protracted illness and a
lingering death.
The Nicolsons' studies have shown that approximately 40 percent of veterans
complaining of Gulf War Illness symptoms have mycoplasma in their bodies.
And roughly 80 percent of those have the rare MFI - a strain harbored by
only about 1 percent of the general population, according to Garth Nicolson.
Ironically, MFI was patented by Shyh-Ching Lo, M.D., then a researcher at
the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, now chief of the institute's
Division of Molecular Pathobiology.
The Nicolsons served as consultants to physicians treating veterans, with
many of their first clients from America's premier fighting organizations,
such as the Army's Special Forces and Delta Force and the Navy's SEALs. But
soon they found themselves helping to treat veterans' spouses and children.
In their ongoing research and efforts to assist veterans at the Institute
for Molecular Medicine in Huntington Beach, California, the Nicolsons have
been consulted in the treatment of thousands of Gulf veterans and their
family members.
According to Garth Nicolson, the institute's president, roughly 80 percent
responded favorably to a regimen that included vitamins and antibiotics,
particularly doxycycline.
Sick Gulf veterans learned, however, that some doctors serving the armed
forces and the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) refused to acknowledge the
effectiveness of doxycycline. As one retired Special Forces officer pointed
out, "I got my blood sent to Dr. [Garth] Nicolson for free testing and got
my prescription for doxycycline. I went to have it filled and not only did
they take away my military ID card, but they would not allow me to have the
doxycycline to save my life."
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Evidence of Physical Injury
In 1997, Arvid Brown lost his job, physically unable to meet his employer's
standards. And he could not find a doctor able to explain his condition-or
his children's. But as more and more Gulf veterans stepped forward with
similar reports, Brown realized that he had contracted something
communicable - a form of what has become known as Gulf War Illness - and
passed it on unwittingly to his family.
While bureaucrats waffled about the mounting evidence of illness and doctors
"studied" the matter, veterans' problems only intensified.
In 1998, when Arvid and Janyce Brown went outside the VA system to a private
clinic and all four family members tested positive for leishmaniasis, they
knew they had found at least part of the answer.
Forms of leishmania - the group of parasitic microorganisms that cause the
illness - were apparently suspected by UN inspectors to be in Saddam's
inventory. <
http://www.freedommag.org/english/vol35I1/words.htm#5> 5 Yet, to
this day, more than a dozen years after Desert Storm, Arvid and many other
veterans have been unable to obtain adequate medical assistance for symptoms
caused by biological means, including possible biological warfare agents, or
by chemical agents and toxins, despite evidence of physical damage.
Studies documenting physical injury include those conducted by researchers
at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Headed by
Robert Haley, M.D., this team showed conclusively that sick Gulf veterans
sustained brain damage. Corresponding with the regions injured, "UT
Southwestern researchers identified a syndrome characterized by thought,
memory and sleep difficulties; a second syndrome that involves more severe
thought problems as well as confusion and imbalance; and a third syndrome of
sore joints and muscles and tingling or numbness in the hands and feet."
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Researchers linked the damage to multiple chemical exposures: chemical
warfare agents, anti-nerve gas tablets, pesticides and insect repellents.
Continuing their research, they subsequently found that Gulf veterans
complaining of dizziness also experienced brain damage.
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