There is a commonly used solvent, degreaser chemical that is in paint and many cleaning products. I have looked into what 2-butoxyethanol does because it was the chemical noted in the Exxon Valdez oil spill as being harmful in Inipol EAP 22 and Corexit

The latter has been sold to the Dept of Defense. I suspect it for being the primary chemical/neurotoxin that could cause all of the 'gulf war syndrome' symptoms.

It causes a lot of harm

I believe there would be a drastic reduction in birth defects and in cancers if it didn't harm people. I have a lot of questions & wish doctors would check for immature red blood cells and blood in urine when THE FATIGUE & misc odd symptoms are present.

It has been harming our people since its invention in the 1930s & especially in the WWII era.

It is more likely the chemical of harm to the Vietnam Vet than dioxin (which gets the blame)

Dear Maggie - e-mail

How to Tell?

   Does cousin Daisy Suckley's Diary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, America's 32nd President, mention a time when he had flu-like symptoms?  He did in 1917

   A cheery fellow - 'Happy Days'

The History Channel Documentary 4-23-05 and 4-24-05, FDR: A Presidency Revealed talked about things that would be like what overexposure to 2-butoxyethanol would cause: * enlarged heart,  many horrible HEADACHES -   some at the base of the head, tired, ashen/pale color, difficulty finishing thoughts in sentences (short term memory loss), difficulty concentrating. Also high blood pressure (180/105), rapid weight loss (liver?)

Repeated headaches.  Headaches were intensifying

4-11-45 as he went to bed he was 'shivering'    (chills?)  

After an acute headache at the back of his head, he collapsed on 4-12-45 and died a few hours later.  It is reported that he died of a cerebral hemorrhage ... was there an autopsy?  If it was advanced stages of the fatigue of CFIDS ... the doctors would not have found it.  They still don't even in 2005 - 60 years later.

       What we would call CFIDS or 'gulf war syndrome' today.

It is now suspected that he didn't have polio,

but guillian-barre-syndrome