Survivors of Iraqi chemical warfare agent attacks in Halabja still seriously ill many years after the attacks

Symptoms and duration similar to complaints of Coalition veterans of the 1991 Gulf War

Byline: Aamer Madhani

HALABJA, Iraq _ Like many others in this small Kurdish city who survived the most notorious chemical attack by Saddam Hussein's regime, Hamida Hassen Muhammad suffers from the distinctive raw cough that physicians say plagues the community.

Each day, the 36-year-old widow wakes up hacking, and by the end of the day she finds herself spitting blood into her kitchen sink. The mustard gas used in the attack damaged her lungs, making even walking across her small home exhausting.

"It feels like the blade of a knife is scratching the inside of my neck when I breathe and when I eat," said Muhammad, who also suffered burns to her ...

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