Letters to the Editor 709

We thank Hunt et al. (1) for their comments and for sharing preliminary findings in their cohort of veterans re-turning from the current conflicts. They report finding a lower prevalence of medically unexplained symptoms among more than 375 veterans returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan than the 28.9 percent we found in a repre-sentative sampling of veterans deployed in Gulf War I (2). Hunt et al. suggest that differences in the types of threats encountered by veterans in the current conflicts as compared with the 1991 Gulf War accounts for the lower current symp-tom prevalence they have observed. We agree that threats