ALS developing in Gulf War vets.(amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) From: Nutrition Health Review | Date: September 22, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Vegetus Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

An unusually high number of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War are becoming ill and dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which typically does not strike until decades later in life, according to Dr. Robert Haley, chief of epidemiology at University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

A study published in Neurology (September 23, 2003) noted that ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, has been occurring in veterans of the first Gulf War under the age of ...

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