VETERANS of chemical weapons tests at the British military lab at Porton Down in Wiltshire have a “lower quality of life” than the general population, report researchers at the University of Oxford. Some of their symptoms are also strikingly similar to those of 1991 Gulf war veterans who were exposed to nerve gas.
The 269 men belong to a Porton Down veterans group which is suing the British government for damages as a result of tests conducted between 1939 and 1989.
A general health questionnaire showed that in the five years after an experiment the veterans commonly experienced headaches, irritability…
