List of Vets Exposed to Nerve Gas Revised

The Pentagon is reversing itself on who was exposed to nerve gas during the Persian Gulf War and who wasn’t. About 30,000 Gulf War veterans are soon to be notified that they probably came in contact with low levels of sarin nerve gas after being told in 1997 that they had escaped exposure. And 30,000 believed to have been exposed will get letters saying they probably weren’t. “These are very low levels--low enough that there is no expectation of a health risk,” said Austin Camacho, spokesman for the Pentagon’s office on Gulf War illnesses.