Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces: Detecting, Characterizing, and Documenting Exposures

Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces: Detecting, Characterizing, and Documenting Exposures
ISBN-10
0309068754
ISBN-13
9780309068758
Series
Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces
Category
Medical
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2000-04-21
Publisher
National Academies Press
Authors
National Research Council, Commission on Life Sciences, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology

Description

Since Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Gulf War veterans have expressed concerns about health effects that could be associated with their deployment and service during the war. Although similar concerns were raised after other military operations, the Gulf War deployment focused national attention on the potential, but uncertain, relationship between the presence of chemical and biological (CB) agents and other harmful agents in theater and health symptoms reported by military personnel. Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces which is one of the four two-year studies, examines the detection and tracking of exposures of deployed personnel to multiple harmful agents.

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