| ABRS | Attributable Benefits for Reservists Scheme
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| AFPS | Armed Forces Pension Scheme
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| BW | Biological warfare
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| CBD | Chemical and Biological Defence sector of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
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| CBW | Chemical and biological warfare/weapons
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| CIA | US Central Intelligence Agency
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| COT | Committee on Toxicity
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| CW | Chemical warfare
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| DERA | Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
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| DOD | United States Department of Defense
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| DoH | Department of Health
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| DSS | Department of Social Security
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| DU | Depleted uranium
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| FFT | Fact finding team on the implementation of the immunisation programme against biological warfare agents for UK Forces during the Gulf conflict
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| GAO | United States General Accounting Office
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| GP | General Practitioner
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| IOM | Institute of Occupational Medicine
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| IRFNA | Inhibited red fuming nitric acid
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| MAP | Gulf Veterans' Medical Assessment Programme
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| MoD | Ministry of Defence
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| NAPS | Nerve Agent Pre-treatment Sets
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| NBC | Nuclear, biological and chemical
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| NHS | National Health Service
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| NIBSC | National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
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| NGVFA | National Gulf Veterans and Families Association
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| OPs | Organophosphates
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| OPPIT | Organophosphate Pesticide Investigation Team
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| PTSD | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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| UNSCOM | United National Special Commission on Iraq
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| VA | United States Department of Veterans' Affairs
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| WDP | War Disablement Pension
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| WPA | War Pensions Agency
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