FINAL REPORT 18JAN93

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Subject: FINAL REPORT   18JAN93                                          

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                   To assess the disease, injury and exposure experience of USMC personnel

             during Operation Desert Storm, a questionnaire survey was designed by members

             of the Navy's Preventive Medicine Augmentation Team (PMAT) in consultation

             with members of the EPA Interagency Task Force'.  The PMAT was based in Al

             Jubayl, Saudi Arabia, during the Desert Shield/Storm operation in 1990-91 and

             was tasked with providing preventive medicine (PM) assistance beyond the

             capabilities of organic USMC PM assets (Appendix A). The team included

             preventive medicine physicians, environmental health officers, entomologists,

             industrial hygienists and preventive medicine technicians.

                   This report presents the final results of the Desert Storm Survey

             conducted among U.S. Marines in the Kuwait Theater of Operations (KTO) during

             March 28-31, 1991. A preliminary report summarizing the results of the survey

             was presented to the Armed Forces Epidemiology Board on June 21, 1991 at the

             Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Washington,D.C.



             GOALS/OBJECTIVES

                   The two major goals of the Desert Storm Survey were:

                   (1)  to provide information on the magnitude and severity of acute

                        health problems possibly related to the air pollution from the

                        oil fires;

                   (2)  to complement the ongoing epidemiologic surveillance program

                        for monitoring illness and injury, and to reconstruct the

                        health-related problems encountered during a period of intense
                        conflict by sampling a large number of Marine Corps personnel.





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