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Editorial: Still
battling Agent Orange
Salisbury Post
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Thirty-five years after the the Vietnam War ended, Agent
Orange continues to haunt the United States — proof that
withdrawal from a war zone does not halt its impact.
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Still counting the casualties of
Vietnam War, 35 years later
Bob Edgar. Washington Post - On Faith. June 9, 2010
America's faith
communities have a long and important history of helping
their members more deeply understand the implications of
war, as well as our collective responsibility to our fellow
human beings.
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Photos from the trip.
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Senator challenges VA's coverage of 3
new illnesses linked to Agent Orange
Chicago Tribune June 8, 2010. By Jason Grotto
and Tim Jones
Citing the billions more it will cost, Sen.
Jim Webb asks VA secretary for explanation as he freezes
funds to pay for expansion of coverage
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The 50 Worst Inventions
- Agent Orange. Time Magazine May 27, 2010
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 Vietnam, US still in conflict over Agent Orange
By Ben Stocking, Associated Press Writer. Statesmen Journal.
May 19, 2010
CAM TUYEN, Vietnam — Her children are 21 and
16 years old, but they still cry through the night, tossing
and turning in pain, sucking their thumbs for comfort.
Tran Thi Gai, who rarely gets any sleep herself, sings them
a mournful lullaby. “Can you feel my love for you? Can you
feel my sorrow for you? Please don’t cry.”
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(photo above by AP photographer David Guttenfelder)
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VA laboring under surge of wounded
veterans Chicago
Tribune, April 11, 2010, by Jason Grotto and Tim Jones
Tribune
finds increase in claims, outdated compensation system
threatening well-being of those who fought for their
country.
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How the Tribune calculated the
numbers Chicago
Tribune. April 11, 2010. By Jason Grotto
The
analysis underlying the Tribune's story on U.S.
veterans' disability claims is based on data from the
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that includes more
than 3 million claims and nearly 12 million diagnoses as
of Jan. 5, 2010.
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Introduction: A Legacy Revisited
Agent Orange is still damaging lives in
Vietnam. The time has come for America to act.
by Walter Isaacson
Agent of Influence
The realpolitik case for compensating
Vietnam. by Geoffrey Cain and
Joshua Kurlantzick
The Environmental Consequences of War
Why militaries almost never clean up the
messes they leave behind. by Clay
Risen
A Hard Way to Die
Why hundreds of thousands of Vietnam
vets with Agent Orange–related diseases have been made
to suffer without VA health care.
by Phillip Longman
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Veterans' benefits entangled
in red tape. by Amanda Carpenter.
Washington Times. December 31, 2009.
Leading Democrats
like to hold up the Veterans Benefits Administration
as an example of how well government can provide
health care. But veterans who deal with the complex
federal bureaucracy have invented an unhappy refrain
to describe the VBA: "Deny, deny until you
die."
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Time Magazine By
Martha Ann Overland / Danang
Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009
This lonely section of the abandoned
Danang air base was once crawling with U.S. airmen and
machines. It was here where giant orange drums were
stored and the herbicides they contained were mixed and
loaded onto waiting planes. Whatever sloshed out soaked
into the soil and eventually seeped into the water
supply. Thirty years later, the rare visitor to the
former U.S. air base is provided with rubber boots and
protective clothing. Residue from Agent Orange, which
was sprayed to deny enemy troops jungle cover, remains
so toxic that this patch of land is considered one of
the most contaminated pieces of real estate in the
country.
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Chicago Tribune Series
Agent Orange: A Lethal Legacy
 Five
part series on the impacts of Agent Orange on US Veterans,
Vietnamese and the environment of Vietnam.
Part 1: For U.S., a record of
neglect
Agent Orange's lethal legacy:
Poisonous defoliants still exact a toll in U.S., Vietnam
Chicago Tribune - By Jason Grotto and Tim Jones.
December 4, 2009.
(Tribune photo by
Kuni Takahashi / June
25, 2009)
In central Indiana, two sisters
struggle through another day, afflicted by a painful
condition in which their brains are wedged against their
spinal cords. They are in their 30s, but their bodies are
slowly shutting down.
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 Video:
Vet's Daughters cope with toxic
inheritance. By Chris Walker Produced by Peggy
Draver.
 Video:
In Vietnam, family grieves 12 lost children
- Photography and
Video by Kuni Takahashi.
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Map: -
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spraying missions in Vietnam by date and location U.S.
troops, Vietnamese nationals exposed to dangerous chemicals
By Jason Grotto, Chris Groskopf, Ryan
Mark, Joe Germuska and Brian Boyer | Tribune staff Dec. 4,
2009
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Gallery: The Legacy of Agent Orange
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Part 2: Agent Orange's Lethal Legacy
For Vietnam War veterans, injustice follows injury
Chicago Tribune - By Tim Jones.
December 6, 2009. Jack Cooley delivered his final
argument in a long, distinguished legal career from a
hospital bed.
Sidebar:
Agent Orange's lethal legacy: The
next generation: Children of male veterans face a
tougher fight for help from government
By Tim Jones December 6, 2009
Part 3: Agent Orange: Birth defects plague Vietnam; U.S.
slow to help: U.S., Vietnam split over whether
defoliants used in war are to blame
By Jason Grotto - Tribune Reporter December 8, 2009.
The sun beats down on Dao Thi Kieu's straw hat as she
hunches over thin strands of bright green rice plants,
pulling them from beds submerged in muddy water and
replanting them elsewhere.
These are the same paddies Kieu tended as a teenager during
the Vietnam War, and she still remembers the planes that
came in the mornings to spray Agent Orange and other
defoliants while she worked.
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Sidebar:
Public-private group has
plan in the works to resolve issue
By Jason Grotto - Tribune Reporter
December 8, 2009.
Sidebar:
Bickering blocks search for causes
of congenital deformities
By Jason Grotto - Tribune Reporter December 8,
2009.
Part 4: Agent Orange's lethal legacy:
At former U.S. bases in Vietnam, a potent poison is clear
and present danger: Bases remain polluted from
defoliants, underscoring the urgency of a solvable problem
By Jason Grotto Tribune Reporter. December 9, 2009.
When a small Canadian
environmental firm started collecting soil samples on a
former U.S. air base in a remote Vietnam valley, Thomas
Boivin and other scientists were skeptical they'd find
evidence proving herbicides used there by the U.S. military
decades ago still posed a health threat.
But results showed levels of the cancer-causing poison
dioxin were far greater than guidelines set by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency for residential areas.
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Part 5: Agent Orange's lethal
legacy: Defoliants more dangerous than they had to be:
Papers show firms didn't act on data to reduce toxicity
By
Jason Grotto and Tim Jones Tribune Reporters. December 17,
2009. As the U.S. military aggressively ratcheted up its
spraying of Agent Orange over South Vietnam in 1965, the
government and the chemical companies that produced the
defoliant knew it posed health risks to soldiers and others
who were exposed.
That year, a Dow Chemical Company memo called a contaminant
in Agent Orange "one of the most toxic materials known
causing not only skin lesions, but also liver damage."More...
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spraying missions in Vietnam by date and location U.S.
troops, Vietnamese nationals exposed to dangerous chemicals
By Jason Grotto, Chris Groskopf,
Ryan Mark, Joe Germuska and Brian Boyer | Tribune staff Dec.
4, 2009
 Map:
Agent Orange and South Vietnam
Max Rust and Phil
Geib/Tribune
Toxin in Agent Orange still polluting
South Vietnam, study says
Chicago Tribune - September 13, 2009. By Jason Grotto.
HANOI, Vietnam - -- Results from a new study show that
herbicides used by U.S. forces during the
Vietnam War continue to
pollute the environment and pose a health threat more than
three decades after the last shots were fired.
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Survey: Dioxin levels high in Vietnam
near US base
- September 11, 2009. Associated Press. By Ben
Stocking.
HANOI, Vietnam — New environmental tests confirm extremely high
levels of dioxin, the toxic ingredient of Agent Orange, in
people, fish and soil near a former U.S. air base where
American troops stored the herbicide during the Vietnam War.
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US, Vietnam Open Annual Agent
Orange Meetings - September 10, 2009.
Associated Press.
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese and U.S. scientists wrapped
up their annual meetings on Agent Orange on Thursday,
launching a task force to examine health issues in areas
where the defoliant was used during the Vietnam War.
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Vietnam, US launch health panel on
Agent Orange - September 10, 2009.
Associated Press. HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese and U.S.
scientists wrapped up their annual meetings on Agent Orange
on Thursday, launching a task force to examine health issues
in areas where the defoliant was used during the Vietnam
War.
The panel will begin by focusing on programs to aid the
disabled in Danang, a city on the central coast where troops
used to mix, store and load Agent Orange onto planes at a
former U.S. base, now the site of the Danang airport.
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Clean up after Agent Orange
- September 2, 2009. Boston Globe.
THE APOLOGY last week of former US Army Lieutenant
William Calley, who was convicted in the killing of
hundreds of civilians at My Lai during the Vietnam War,
was long overdue. But a more important step in the
righting of wrongs left over from that war would be a
greater US role in rectifying the health and
environmental problems caused by the defoliant Agent
Orange.
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New York Times - By Jane Lorber. July 24,
2009.
An expert
panel reported on Friday that two more diseases may be
linked to exposure to Agent Orange, a defoliant used by
the American military during the Vietnam War.
People exposed to the chemical appear, at least
tentatively, to be more likely to develop
Parkinson’s disease and
ischemic heart disease, according to the report.
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 Through
the Forest, a Clearer View of the Needs of a People
New
York Times - By Christie Aschwanden Published: September 18,
2007. A LUOI VALLEY,
Vietnam — Phung Tuu Boi reaches down to inspect one
of the spiny shrubs lined up in a row before him. A few feet
away, a cow grazes serenely in this emerald valley in the
hills of central Vietnam.
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End Vietnam’s Air War : Agent Orange Victims have
waited too long for Justice -
Danielle Trussoni, New
York Times June 17, 2007
IN the
spring of 1999 I went to Vietnam. I was a tourist,
though my trip was not a post-college vacation involving
tanning oil and beach chairs and oozing hangovers
suffered under the shade of palm trees. I traveled to
Vietnam as the daughter of a veteran, a man who had
spent a lifetime dealing with his experiences in the
war. Making the journey to Vietnam was important for me,
but at the time I couldn’t quite formulate how.
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 The Last Battle of Vietnam
Time Magazine, March 12, 2007
by Walter Issacson.
Clean up after yourself.
It's a rule that we learn early in life. Now, more than 30
years after the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, the time has
come to follow that rule.
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 The
Vietnam Syndrome -
Vanity Fair's August
2006. Photos by James Natchwey, article by
Christopher Hitchens. To be writing these words. is for
me, to undergo the severest test of my core belief - that
sentences can be more powerful than pictures.
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By
Anthony Faiola
in the Washington Post
Monday, November 13, 2006; Page A01. DA NANG, Vietnam
-- For a stark reminder of the Vietnam War, people living
near the airport in this central industrial city can still
stroll along the old stone walls that once surrounded a U.S.
military base. But Luu Thi Nguyen, a 31-year-old homemaker,
needs only to look into the face of her young daughter.
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Accompanying the Washington Post article are two videos
on Agent Orange by
Travis Fox
 Agent Orange Preys on Vietnam
Decades Later. San Jose Mercury News, November
21, 2006. By Kim Oanh.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Dang Hong Nhut
smiles broadly when she speaks about her firstborn, a
son she describes as tall and handsome, born before
American combat in Vietnam intensified. Her face
wrinkles up in revulsion when conversation turns to her
other child, who died years ago in her womb three months
before full term.
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 Agent Orange's Bitter Harvest
Science Magazine
12 January 2007:
by Richard Stone
HANOI--New
findings paint a more sinister picture of the Vietnam War
herbicide; scientists are trying to revive an epic study of
its effects on U.S. veterans and clarify its legacy in
Vietnam.
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Blog Postings:
Common Cause Interfaith delegation to Vietnam :
Bob Edgar - President, CEO Common Cause - Common
Blog
Photos from Vietnam
June 2, 2010
A Humanitarian Concern we can do
something About. May
28, 2010
The Guest House. May 27,
2010
Tears of Joy, Tears of Sadness
May 26, 2010
Tired and Humble, Day 2 in Vietnam
May 24, 2010
Journey for Justice -
May 24, 2010
Sister Maureen Fiedler -
host of Interfaith Voices
National Catholic Reporter Blogs
Challenges ahead for Vietnam
- May 29, 2010
Vietnam Track II Diplomacy
- May 28, 2010
The Story of Ly
May 27, 2010
The earth Beneath our feet was toxic
May 26, 2010
Let the Little Children Come to me.
May 24, 2010
Pentecost in Vietnam
May 23, 2010
Rabbi
Steve Gutow-
Huffington Post
Why Is This Rabbi in Vietnam?
May 25, 2010
Michael E. Livingston - Former National Council of
Churches President
Decades after Vietnam, Agent Orange
still maims
- June 9, 2010
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Vietnam Talking Points One Vietnam
Agent Orange related blogs.
"DELAY, DENY AND HOPE THAT I DIE" -
Two wars and a recession have significantly increased the claims
handled by the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs, slowing the
large bureaucracy and frustrating many veterans. Byron Pitts
reports. David Schneider is the producer.: To Air on 60 Minutes. January 3, 2010
Vietnam's Lingering Ghost: Facing the
Legacy of Agent Orange
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HDNET -
World Report
reveals
the ghost that the United States left behind when our troops
left Vietnam Agent Orange. Greg Dobbs traveled to Vietnam
for a report that reveals hundreds of people - especially
children born years after the war - suffer from grotesque,
debilitating deformities, mental retardation and cancer.
Many Vietnamese believe these conditions are a direct result
of Agent Orange. Should the U.S. be doing more to help the
children who are still suffering over 30 years after the
war? Available for viewing on
iTunes for $1.99.
Agent Orange Devastates Generations of
Vietnamese World Focus Report. (Video)
January 15, 2009.
World Focus correspondent Mark Litke and producer Ara Ayer
travel to Vietnam to report on the long term impacts of
Agent Orange/Dioxin on the Vietnamese land and people. This
video report was part of their series on
New Vietnam.
Agent Orange Vietnam's Lasting Legacy - on PBS Foreign
Exchange Episode 322 (June 3-4, 2007) by Christie Aschwanden and
George Lerner (film clip starts at min 16)
Also see the
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for other videos from their
trip to Vietnam.
 Agent
Orange: The Legacy of War.
Legendary Magnum photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths returns to
Vietnam to witness the continuing impact of Agent Orange. An
11-minute video by Lisa Miller.
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NPR
Weekend Edition Saturday,
November 18, 2006 · One of the
issues discussed when President Bush visited Vietnam this
week was the long-term effect of the chemical defoliant
Agent Orange. The Vietnamese say there are some 1 million
people who have suffered health problems resulting from U.S.
use of the chemical during the war.
The Legacy of Agent Orange
- By Dave
Kattenburg EarthDoc - Earth Chronicles
Productions. December 11, 2007.
"I remember
watching Walter Cronkite report on the U.S. defoliation of
Vietnam's forests. Enemy forces were hiding in the woods, he
explained, as images of herbicide dusters swooping over
Vietnamese jungle flickered on my TV screen. Agent Orange
couldn't be good for people's health, I thought. I was
right."
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The
Legacy of Chemical War: Vietnam
and Agent Orange - Pod cast interview with Diane Fox,
Coordinator of WLP's Agent Orange Education Project. National
Catholic Reporter - June 1, 2007
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US Policy regarding Agent
Orange:
Agent Orange Still Haunts Vietnam, US - Ben Stocking -
AP June 14, 2007
Vietnam to clean dioxin in hot spots
Thanh Nien -
July 19,2006
US Says
Willing to Do More on Dioxin in Vietnam
(Reuters, June, 6,
2006)
HANOI
- The United States is prepared to do more scientific work
with Vietnam on the impacts of wartime poisoning of
Vietnamese with dioxin, a military official said on Monday
during a visit by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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US Won't
Compensate Vietnam's Agent Orange Victims: Official
(AFP, June 5, 2006)
The United States won't compensate Vietnam's Agent Orange
victims but will offer advice on dealing with the wartime
defoliant, a US official said during a visit by Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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Dioxin in Vietnam: Fighting a Legacy of War
Environmental
Health Perspectives,
March, 2001
by Susan M. Booker. Singapore was the site of an East--West
convergence over the week of 27 November-1 December 2000. At
the behest of their respective governments, scientists from
the United States and Vietnam came together for what
promises to be the first of many meetings.
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Dioxin
Hotspots in Vietnam
Czech Republic pledges $1.8 million to
clean up Agent Orange - Thanh Nien,
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News about the Vietnamese
Agent Orange Lawsuit
Vietnam Association of
Victims of Agent Orange Conference - March 28-29, 2006:
Agent Orange
victims, activists testify from around the world Vietnam
News Agency March 29, 2006
At Agent
Orange conference, a plea to U.S. AP March 29, 2006
U.S.
must act for Agent Orange victims, veterans say Reuters
March 29, 2006
Agent Orange
meeting ends with calls on US chemical cos to compensate
victims AFX March 29, 2006
Agent
Orange Victims Gather to Seek Justice Reuters - March 28,
2006
Veterans in
Vietnam for Agent Orange meeting AFP March - 28, 2006
Vietnam War victims to sue US chemical companies Xinhua
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March 28, 2006
Agent Orange
victims demand justice for toxic damage AFP - March 28,
2006
Vietnam
conference urges compensation for Agent Orange victims
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - March 28, 2006
Vietnam War
veterans, activists speak out about Agent Orange AP
- March 28, 2006
Three decades later, Agent Orange still ravages Vietnam, GIs
May 13, 2006 -
Tim
Wheeler People's Weekly World
One World.net Lawsuit page:
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Stories about the
Vietnamese
The Legacy of Agent Orange: Children are the new victims of
the Vietnam War - OhmyNews November, 18, 2006
by Ludwig De
Braeckeleer
Agent Orange: the legacy of a weapon of mass destruction
The Independent March 31,
2006
Agent Orange
Victims Speak Out Albuquerque Journal North Dec 4,
2005
Vietnamese AO
victims garner more support from American vets
Nhan Dan, Nov 29, 2005
Vietnamese,
Americans highlight plight of Agent Orange victims
AFP - Nov. 29, 2005
Vietnam Agent
Orange victims further campaign in Washington Thanh
Nien - Nov. 28, 2005
Because of
lingering effects of Agent Orange exposure, Vietnamese
plead for redress New York Newday - November 17.
2005
Vietnamese aided on war poison claim
Chicago Tribune
- November 25, 2005
French Prof supports labs for dioxin damage Tuoi Tre,
November 25, 2005
Vietnamese-American director shows AO victims now
Vietnamnet Oct. 10, 2005
The legacy of Agent Orange, BBC May 29, 2005
Falling Leaves, Broken Lives By Edward Tick,
Published in Utne Reader, January/February 2005
Return to Vietnam (Pt. 5): Friendship Village (KTUU
News - Alaska, February 9, 2005)
US
Veterans
Secretary
Shinseki Announces Study of Vietnam-Era Women Veterans - VA Press
Release November 19, 2009. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Eric K. Shinseki announced the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) is launching a comprehensive study of women
Veterans who served in the military during the Vietnam War
to explore the effects of their military service upon their
mental and physical health.
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Secretary Shinseki Announces New
Efforts to Explore Health Consequences –
VA Press Release - September 14, 2009. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K.
Shinseki announced today plans to begin additional research
by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to better
understand the health consequences of service in Vietnam.
“The National Vietnam Veterans
Longitudinal Study (NVVLS) will allow VA to pursue another
valuable research tool,” Secretary Shinseki said. “The
insight we gain from this study will help give us an
understanding of how to better serve America’s Veterans.”
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The National Academy of Sciences
announces that limited data suggests possible
association between Agent Orange exposure and Ischemic Heart
disease and Parkinson's disease in Vietnam Veterans. July
24, 2009
NAS
Press release
New York Times - By Jane Lorber. July 24,
2009.
An expert
panel reported on Friday that two more diseases may be
linked to exposure to Agent Orange, a defoliant used by
the American military during the Vietnam War.
People exposed to the chemical appear, at least
tentatively, to be more likely to develop
Parkinson’s disease and
ischemic heart disease,
according to the report.
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Veterans
Exposed To Agent Orange Have Higher Rates Of Prostate Cancer
Recurrence
Medical News Today – Health
News
21 May 2007
The study was funded by the Georgia Cancer
Coalition and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans
exposed to Agent Orange have a 48 percent increased risk of
prostate cancer recurrence following surgery than their
unexposed peers, and when the disease comes back, it seems
more aggressive, researchers say.
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Cancer risk increased for Vietnam vets who
didn't spray Agent Orange -
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness
Week, May 14, 2005.
Even Vietnam
veterans who were not involved in spraying Agent Orange
experienced higher levels of dioxin contamination, which is
linked to an increased overall risk of cancer, reports a new
study.
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Australia
and New Zealand
Agent Orange Causes Genetic Disturbance in New Zealand
Vietnam War Veterans
(4/23/2007)-New Zealand
Karger Medical And Scientific Publishers A
study published in the journal "Cytogenetic and Genome
Research" shows that exposure to Agent Orange, and other
defoliants, has led to genetic disturbance in New Zealand
Vietnam War veterans which continues to persist decades
after their service.
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Korean
Veterans
S. Korean
Vietnam War veterans still haunted by Agent Orange -
Yonhap (South Korea)
- Feb. 15, 2006
Philip Jones Griffiths
Exhibit
Agent Orange
discoverer tries to make amends - CT Post On-line
Dec 11, 2005
Collateral Damage
Fairfield County Weekly Dec. 1,
2005
Cambodia and Laos
Agent Orange Legacy
- Cambodia Daily - March 20-21,
2004
Dioxin Hotspots in the
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10, 2004
Members of the Sambhavna Trust Clinic and a large
number of their supporters held a vigil at Roshanpura Square today
in support of the victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam. The Vietnamese
victims of Agent Orange have declared August 10th, the first day
that the US army sprayed chemicals over Vietnam, as the Vietnam Day
for Agent Orange Victims. Holding candles and carrying pictures of
Vietnamese victims, members of Sambhavna collected signatures on a
global petition in solidarity with the Vietnam Association of
Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin. The petition is in support of the
class action lawsuit filed by the Vietnamese victims in the US
federal court. The suit seeks compensation from Dow Chemical and 36
other American chemical companies, which produced Agent Orange for
the US army. Dow Chemical Company is the present owner of Union
Carbide Corporation that caused the gas disaster in Bhopal in
December 1984. From 1961 to 1971, during its invasion of Vietnam,
the US army sprayed 79 million litres of Agent Orange and other
defoliants to destroy over 3 million hectares of forests in southern
Viet Nam. Agent Orange contained a high content of toxic dioxin,
which caused genetic changes, cancer and deformities in the affected
victims and their children and grandchildren. Of the 3 million
victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam over 50, 000 have died of cancer
and other diseases caused by exposure to Dioxin. Currently there are
50 thousand Vietnamese children with cleft lip, missing or shortened
limbs, paralysis and other birth deformities. The Sambhavna Trust
clinic provides free medical care to the survivors of the December
'84 gas disaster as well as to the residents of the communities
affected by ground water contamination by Union Carbide.
Satinath Sarangi
Managing Trustee
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Vietnam
says millions still feel war's impact
The
hazards of dioxin in the environment
