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Robert Ward remembers his very last run. It was the day after Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992 and he had a nice, shady road to jog along in Huntsville, Ala. But Ward, who was 32 at the time, couldnt finish.
It was that kind of tired that you have after a long day when youve been working for hours and you go home and you hit the bed and you fall asleep immediately, Ward said.
The veteran of the first Gulf War knew he was having another of the spells of intense fatigue that had dogged him since his first deployment into Saudi Arabia in 1991. Now a new imaging study suggests there may be something different in his brain, and in the brains of other sufferers of Gulf War illness, that may help explain it.
Scans may show brain changes in Gulf War illness - Health - Men's health | NBC News
It was that kind of tired that you have after a long day when youve been working for hours and you go home and you hit the bed and you fall asleep immediately, Ward said.
The veteran of the first Gulf War knew he was having another of the spells of intense fatigue that had dogged him since his first deployment into Saudi Arabia in 1991. Now a new imaging study suggests there may be something different in his brain, and in the brains of other sufferers of Gulf War illness, that may help explain it.
Scans may show brain changes in Gulf War illness - Health - Men's health | NBC News