THERE are many good reasons why we cannot yet draw a line under the government’s position on Iraq. Not the least is the persistence of arguments over gulf war syndrome.
Recently this magazine reported the problems caused by the drug pyridostigmine (PB). Many American and British soldiers in the 1991 and 2003 campaigns took the drug to protect them against nerve agents. Soldiers with one form of the syndrome were around eight times as likely to have suffered a bad reaction to PB as their healthy comrades (New Scientist, 20 December 2003, p 12).
Although some veterans claim…
