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For war veterans backed by BU study, symptoms all too real
By Bina Venkataraman, Globe Correspondent | December 15, 2008

Tara Batista says she cannot ever recall her phone number. But she can remember clearly what she was like before she drove an ambulance through the deserts and combat zones of Saudi Arabia in the winter of 1991.

"I was 19; I was healthy," she said in a recent phone interview. As a combat medic during the Gulf War, Batista, who now lives in Fitchburg, stood in clouds of pesti… Continue