Veterans of the first Gulf War are showing signs of fertility problems, compared with colleagues in the armed forces not serving in that region, according to a study. The poll, conducted by the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, showed a slight increase in cases of infertility and birth of children dead among veterans from 1990 to 1991 in Kuwait and Iraq, compared with the military who were not there."The difference is small, but significant from a statistical point of view." "What we have to do now is to conduct more studies, particularly among soldiers returning from Iraq." The survey found that 3.4 percent of veterans and their partners had not conceived or had children living after having tried for a year. For non-veterans of the Gulf War the figure was 2.3 percent.
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