Gulf War and Health: Volume 5: Infectious Diseases

Institute of Medicine

doi:10.17226/11765

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Gulf War and Health

Volume 5: Infectious Diseases

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Infectious diseases have been a problem for military personnel throughout history. The consequences in previous conflicts have ranged from frequent illnesses disrupting daily activities and readiness to widespread deaths. Preventive measures, early diagnosis, and treatment greatly limit the exposures and acute illnesses of troops today in comparison with those in armies of the past, but infections and consequent acute illnesses still occur.

Thousands of US veterans of the Persian Gulf War have reported an array of unexplained illnesses since the war ended in 1991. Many veterans have believed that the illnesses were associated with their military service in southwest Asia during the war. This volume of Gulf War and Health evaluates the scientific literature on chemical, biologic, and physical agents to which military personnel in the gulf were potentially exposed and possible long-term adverse health outcomes.

Contributor(s): Institute of Medicine; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Committee on Gulf War and Health: Infectious Diseases; Abigail E. Mitchell, Laura B. Sivitz, and Robert E. Black, Editors

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Institute of Medicine. 2007. Gulf War and Health: Volume 5: Infectious Diseases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11765.

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238 pages | 8.5 x 11 |

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/11765

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xiv
Summary	1-8
1 Introduction	9-18
2 Methodology	19-34
3 Infectious Diseseases Endemic to Southwest and South-central Asia the have Long-Term Adverse Health Outcomes	35-60
4 Infectious Diseases Diagnosed in U.S. Troops Who Served in the Persian Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi Freedom	61-100
5 Levels of Association Between Select Diseases and Long-Term Adverse Health Outcomes	101-180
6 Diseases and Agents of Special Concern to Veterans of the Gulf War, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom	181-200
A Biographical Sketches for Members of the Committee	201-204
Index	205-224

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