Gulf War syndrome, also known as Gulf War illness, is a set of symptoms poorly understood by doctors that many veterans who served in the conflict in the early 1990s experience. Some symptoms include: short-term memory loss, chronic fatigue, struggles with word recall, sleep disturbance and tremors. Gulf War syndrome is estimated to affect between 175,000 and 250,000 of the nearly 700,000 troops from the United States, United Kingdom and other allied countries who were deployed in the Gulf War conflict from 1990-1991, according to a 2020 Department of Defense report. Thirty years after the Gulf War conflict, a new genetic study has found a link between a specific gene and likelihood of symptom severity when environmental exposure to sarin gas is taken into account. Swipe through to read more about the study. Click the link in our bio for more infromation.