[FairOpinion]

In an earlier thread, which gives more details about thesyptoms and how the soldiers mayhave contracted it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/955450/posts

we've been speculating about the possibility of ricin poison.

[maestropepper]

I recently found this board because of a cross post on a military message board for 3rd ACR. My son is in Iraq. In a recent letter (3 weeks old), he told me his buddy who is healthy, strong and athletic, was fine one minute and 5 minutes later was unconscious and bleeding from the nose. My son remarked that he hoped it wasn't contagious because he started his IV. In a phone call this past week, he said he heard his friend had double pneumonia. Since reading news articles, I'm afraid that's not it at all.

Last night, MSNBC did a report on this illness now being called Gulf War Syndrome II. They additionally report that the military did not follow public law enacted because of Gulf War Syndrome I in that blood should have been drawn from every soldier before deploying. Now those soldiers with this disease cannot have blood comparisons done.