Resources

Burn Pit Exposure Illnesses & Symptoms

“Veterans exposed to burn pit plumes experienced exposure to many highly toxic chemicals that have specific associated health risks that are known and there are also predictable health risks arising from the synergistic impact of simultaneous exposure to multiple toxic chemicals emitting from burning refuse.”

Download a PDF of Symptoms and Diseases – burn pit exposure

Download a PDF of Top 10 Cancers

Toxic Exposure Table

 

 

VA Training Letter

Documentation of Deployment Exposures and POEMS Information for Preventive Medicine Personnel

 

V.A. Benefits & Compensation

DBQ Form for Pulmonary Compensation Evaluation (PDF)

Burn Pit Research & Studies

Burn Pits 360 continues to work with health and legal experts on research efforts that will help in concluding the evidence to link troops illnesses and deaths to exposure to burn pits.

Medical

Dr. Miller – The New England Journal of Medicine Constrictive Bronchiolitis in Soldiers Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan (PDF)

Dr. Szema – Proposed Iraq/Afghanistan War-Lung Injury (IAW-LI) Clinical Practice Recommendations: National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine Burn Pits Workshop (PDF)

Dr. Szema – NIH Public Access, Iraq Dust is Respirable, Sharp, Metal-Laden, and Induces Lung Inflammation with Fibrosis in Mice via IL-2 Upregulation and Depletion of Regulatory T Cells (PDF)

Dr. Coughlin – Analysis of Burn Pits 360 Degrees Registry Data on Veterans, Sunil K. Halder, PhD and Banabihari Giri, PhD MPH College of Allied Health Sciences, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia 30912 (PNG)

DOD Research

Dr. Morris, Study of Active Duty Military Personnel for Environmental Deployment Exposures: Pre- and Post-Deployment Spirometry (STAMPEDE II)

Periodic Occupational and Environmental Monitoring Summary (POEMS)

VA Research

2011 Long term health consequences of exposure to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan (pdf)

The effects of exposure to documented open-air burn pits on respiratory health among deployers of the millenium cohort study, Naval health research center report no. 11-38

Congressional Research

GDIT FY20 Outreach Military Flyer AMD

 

Reports

Analytical Results, Incinerator Ash Characterization, Taji; Iraq, 31 March 2010

Analytical Results, Burn Pit Ash Characterization, Lion, Afghanistan, 29 September 2009

Analytical Results, Ash Characterization, Taji, Iraq, 24 February 2010

Analytical Results, Ash Characterization, Q-West, Iraq, 23 November 2009

Analytical Results, Ash Characterization, Mahmudiyah, Iraq, 12 June 2010

Ash Sample Characterization, Bagram, Afghanistan, 14 September 2007

Transmittal of Results for Deployment Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH) Risk Characterization

Deployment Environmental Surveillance, Air Quality Assessment, Bagram, Afghanistan

Legislation

Federal

2019 Congressional Statement

H.R. 1001 Family Member Access to Burn Pit Registry Act

H.R. 1005 Burn Pit Revision Act

State

H.B. 306 Texas Burn Pit Registry

 

News Reports

Spiritual Services

Ministry 4 Warriors

http://www.ministry4warriors.org

For prayer, please call: (361) 877-0323

 

 

Healthcare Services

Hyperbaric Treatment

http://treatnow.org

https://northstarhbot/about-dr-henricks/

Pulmonary Treatment

Dr. Robert Miller

Vanderbilt University

615-936-3636

Toxic Brain Injury

Cerescan

VA Benefits Information

Healthcare Benefits Application

Department of Veterans Affairs & Department of Defense Benefits

Veteran Organizations that Assist with Filing Claims:

• DAV
• Legion
• VFW

 

Department of Veterans Affairs

VA Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards