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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany
Quite, in 90/91 before going to the Gulf, British troops were offered a jag against Bubonic plague due to the Bio-warfare threat of Saddam. This particular little dose of joy wasn't exactly an off the shelf & authorised cure all, more a sort of lets see what happens, Squaddies being squaddies just said yeah ok do it!
After leaving in late 93 I received my medical docs to hand on to my new Civvy house doctor, nowhere in my papers was the plague jag mentioned, I & I would suggest 99% of the UK forces "Voluntarily" got stabbed without knowing the effectiveness or if complications would arise then or in later life.
When studies showing our lads & lasses along with many allied troops showing varying unidentifiable & non definable, illnesses & effects years after, known as the "Gulf war syndrome", all Govts denied any knowledge as to why this should be.
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I worked with a las who had been out in the gulf.
She had had these jabs....on return to civvy street she trained to be a nurse...she finished her training, but became ill with those indefinable symptoms and was told that she had the 'gilf war syndrome' thought to have been caused by getting all the jabs that the army felt were necessary.
she never was able to work, nor was she able to prove her disabling condition was due to the jabs