My
brother-in-law is a 100% PTSD disabled Vietnam veteran. Yesterday, he
brought home a Million Veteran Program Baseline Survey from the VA. As
far as I can tell, this program is designed to collect blood for DNA
samples from a million veterans. For more information about the MVP, go
to www.research.va.gov/mvp .
While
this information could be useful in determining which veterans are most
susceptible to the effects of certain toxic exposures on the
battlefield and military bases, there are questions to be asked about
how in the time of “sequester”, the VA can afford what must be a
multi-million dollar study and could DNA data backfire into a “blame
genetics not the exposure” scenario. Finally, how can the government
spend this kind of money on DNA sampling of a million veterans and not
be able to fund a Center to discover why veterans’ children and
grandchildren. have birth defects and disabilities?
With best regards,
Betty Mekdeci
Executive Director
Birth Defect Research for Children
976 Lake Baldwin Lane, Suite 104
Orlando FL 32814
407-895-0802
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