French soldiers, who were not given the anti-nerve gas tablets, are not suffering from the syndrome.
Troops were given both of these vaccines in addition to unlicensed anti-nerve gas tablets, called Naps.
The treatment could also be used on people suffering from the effects of nerve gas.
It is supposed to ban the production and stockpiling of nerve gas and other chemical weapons worldwide.
The Court of Inquiry, kept secret at the time, found the cause of death was poisoning by nerve gas.
The Marine medic then said that nerve gas is tasteless, smell-less and invisible.
Many of the veterans believe that the vaccines and anti-nerve gas tablets administered to them to counter the threat of chemical and biological caused their illnesses.
But the discovery of stockpiles of the far more deadly German nerve gas, left in Europe after the Second World War, pushed Porton Down into a race against time.
But the fact that the kids got injections despite the absence of a nerve gas attack does not sit well with critics who don't view Israel's tiny and military trained population as a good comparison group to U.S. civilians.
Reading Fisher's counsel on how to achieve this feat, I was reminded of my time in the Marine Corps when the medic explained the uses of the caked tube of atropine kept in a back pocket of our cartridge belts as a remedy for a nerve gas attack.
If Iraq's use, in violation of the Geneva Protocol, of nerve gas and other chemicals against Iran-a UN-confirmed illegality about which there was no verification dispute, a violation that produced horribly disfigured victims and lurid corpses, all displayed on television around the world-produced no condemnation of Iraq, let alone punishment, then what basis exists for believing that non-compliance with the CWC would produce such action?
John Keane was given an anti-nerve-gas kit, but no training in how to use it.
The recent surge in gas prices has touched a raw nerve for many around the country, reminding us of an economy that is increasingly uncertain for the middle-class, a growing addiction to oil that draws us ever closer to dictators and despots, and a fragile global position with a climate that is increasingly out of balance.
This, he believes, will make it possible to work out which country, even which factory, supplied the original chemicals for the mustard gas - it will not be possible to trace the source of the nerve agents.
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