[Just to be clear, I'm claiming the link between his illness and GWS, not the newspaper or his family.]
From the Lebanon Express:
Andrew Rounds, Iraq vet, passed away Saturday
A Waterloo man who spent the last nine months battling leukemia died at Samaritan Regional Medical Center (SRMC) in Corvallis on Saturday.
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The cause of his leukemia was unidentified. Because researchers found no genetic markers in his cells, it was not genetic but something environmental.
His family wonders whether the explosion of an ammunition depot in 2004, when he was serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq, could have exposed him to something that led to the disease.
More on Gulf War Syndrome can be found here.
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