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  • Khamisiyah II Narrative, originally published December 05, 2000
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  • Topical Bibliography of Published Works Regarding the Health of Veterans of the Persian Gulf War from the Gulf War Veteran Research Team at the Naval Health Research Center (REV 1)
  • Military Medicine in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm: The Navy Forward Laboratory, Biological Warfare Detection, and Preventive Medicine originally posted September 10, 1997
  • A Working Plan for Research on Persian Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses August, 1995

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