Byline: Associated Press
WASHINGTON One in six Persian Gulf war veterans suffering postwar ailments still cannot be diagnosed, but early tests indicate chemical and biological agents were not involved in any of the illnesses, the Pentagon's top doctor said Thursday.
``There is no one unique, single, overriding cause'' of the illnesses that have afflicted thousands of Persian Gulf veterans and have come to be known as gulf war syndrome, Dr. Stephen Joseph, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, told a House Veterans Affairs panel.
Joseph released updated figures of a Pentagon medical evaluation program of gulf war veterans showing …
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