How many Gulf War veterans are sick?
Dr. Rostker: I don’t know what the definition of sick is, Jamie. I can tell you how many have come into the CCEP. We can talk about how many have different diagnoses. We can talk about how many have eventually come to the point of no diagnosis that falls under the unknown diagnosis category. Q: When you cite the number of people that you surveyed, the 7,000 or so, 99 percent weren’t sick. Dr. Rostker: That was a question that related to the immediate affects. I don’t have the numbers, but we can get them for you, of how many were registered in the CCEP… Q: Is that still an unknown, here five years later, how many Gulf War veterans are actually sick? Dr. Rostker: Again, I have to say what’s the definition of sick? Dr. Garthwaite: The reason I mentioned the epidemiologic study we’re doing with 15,000 veterans randomly surveyed, we hope to get at that answer. We know who self-selects and comes in for the registry examination, but we don’t know who sees other clinicians in the private se
