Articles Comparing Gulf War Illness & Fibromyalgia, etc.

The other day my husband was searching the web for information about Gulf War Illness.  He served in Desert Storm & Desert Sheild and had some friends who were trying to find info about it.  He stumbled across some very interesting articles.  Basically, there is a group of doctors and scientists who have a very good theory about GWI, Fibromyalgia, CFS, etc.  They believe that they are actually all the same disease and may be caused by Mycoplasmal Fermentans which is a form of cellular bacteria.  I'm not a scientist so I won't go any further down that road.  Below are several articles from different sources that talk about this more intelligently.  Apparently one Microbiologist cured his daughter (a Desert Storm Vet) of GWI by administering long term Doxycycline (an anti-biotic).  One of the links has a paper written by him that was published in the International Journal of Medicine and another in the Journal of American Medicine. 

I'm always very sceptical about government conspiracy theories, but this seems very plausable.  I'm going to show the articles to my Dr. (who is very open-minded) and see what her take is.  If this is true, this is HUGE!  All the people that suffered for so long could have been healed using simple antibiotics.  Wow!

My husband is going to visit the VA hospital next week armed with the reports.  He has had mild GWI symptoms since he returned from the war, mainly fatigue and depression.  I'm sure they will deny that GWI is infectous and transmittable.  The official CDC definition of GWI is in one of the links.  Of course it doesn't mention Mycoplasmal Fermentans.

CDCs Definition of GWI  http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/veterans/default2g.htm

Article by Marjorie Tietjen "What Chronic Disease Have You Been Labeled With?" http://www.bariumblues.com/designer_diseases.htm

Gulf War Illness Research  http://www.immed.org/illness/gulfwar_illness_research.html  I suggest reading the last artical listed in the "publications" section - "Mycoplasmal Infections and Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue.......".  It's an rtf.doc file.  Also, two articles above that one "Doxycyclene Treatment.....".  is good too.  There are many more.

Mycoplasmas - The missing Link in Fatiguing Illness   http://www.prohealth.com/library/print.cfm?libid=7933

Official Testimony to House of Representatives - Commitee on Government Reform  http://www.gulfwarvets.com/testimony_2.htm

Happy reading!