Vaccine

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Vaccinations have been proposed as an etiological factor in Gulf War Illness, especially the mass vaccinations given prior to military deployment.[1]

Vaccination in the presence of elevated cortisol levels can drive cytokine expression toward TH2 dominance.[2][3]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Peakman, Mark; Skowera, Ania; Hotopf, Matthew (2006), "Immunological dysfunction, vaccination and Gulf War illness", Immunological dysfunction, vaccination and Gulf War illness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 361 (1468): 681–687, doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1826
  2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8597461
  3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8786298