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The Advertiser
April 23, 2018
The 81-year-old Brighton resident was one of 450 doctors, nurses and anaesthetists who served as members of the Civilian Surgical Medical Teams that operated in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972. She suffers ill-health she believes is directly related to being regularly sprayed with the toxic Agent OrangeÃâà...
Citizen Truth
April 23, 2018
For these reasons, it is impossible to determine the actual numbers of Agent Orange victims in Vietnam. Nevertheless, at the population level we see the consequences of dioxin for the Vietnamese in terms of ill health, shortened lives and birth defects. Some 10 percent to 15 percent of all Vietnamese withÃâà...
Marshalltown Times Republican
April 4, 2018
On Saturday, Marshalltown's Iowa Veterans Home and Vietnam Veterans of America, Story County Chapter, will cohost an Agent Orange and Toxic Exposure town ... Agent Orange was an extremely powerful herbicide and chemical defoliant used against enemy forces in Vietnam from 1961-71 in hopes ofÃâà...
The Killeen Daily Herald
April 4, 2018
Roosevelt Huggins, of Killeen, was a “Screaming Eagle” during the war. Huggins served with 320 Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, from 1965-1967. He summed up one of the most important issues facing Vietnam-era veterans: “Two words: agent orange.” Agent orange was used during theÃâà...
Vail Daily News
April 4, 2018
We are fortunate to have a large population of veterans living in Colorado's 3rd Congressional district, many of whom served in the Vietnam War. During this brutal war, many of these brave Coloradans fell victim to a terror they could have never foreseen: a toxic herbicide called Agent Orange. ThroughoutÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
April 3, 2018
Named Agent Orange after the coloured stripe on the barrels it was stored in, the US Army, supporting the South Vietnamese, spent a decade from 1961, spraying approximately 80 million litres over 30,000 square miles of southern Vietnam. The aim was to “smoke out” and weaken the Viet Cong enemy ofÃâà...
The Durango Herald
April 3, 2018
We are fortunate to have a large population of veterans living in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, many of whom served in the Vietnam War. During this brutal war, many of these brave Coloradans fell victim to a terror they could have never foreseen: a toxic herbicide called Agent Orange. ThroughoutÃâà...
The Guam Daily Post
April 1, 2018
AGENT ORANGE: A U.S. Army Huey helicopter sprays Agent Orange over Vietnamese agricultural land during the Vietnam War. ... Terlaje, in that letter, wanted to confirm if soil testing for TCDD dioxin – the toxic component of the Agent Orange herbicide – would be conducted along the fuel pipeline thatÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
March 24, 2018
VA Secretary David Shulkin suggests he favors expansion of Agent Orange-related health care and disability compensation to new categories of ailing veterans ... Vietnam veterans who served even a day in country who have illnesses on the presumptive list can quality for VA medical care and disabilityÃâà...
New York Times
March 20, 2018
But illnesses and deaths from Agent Orange exposure were only the initial outcomes. Dioxin affects not only people exposed to it, but also their children, altering DNA. Large numbers of Vietnamese babies continue to be born with grotesque deformities: misshapen heads, bulging tumors, underdevelopedÃâà...
Newsweek
March 7, 2018
American sailors from the U.S. Navy supercarrier, the USS Carl Vinson, visited a Vietnamese shelter on Wednesday to meet people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange, a toxic chemical the U.S. dumped on Vietnam during the war there. Sailors made incense sticks and plastic flowers and danced withÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 6, 2018
A Vietnamese passenger boat sails past U.S. aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson as it docks in Danang Bay, Vietnam, on Monday, March 5, 2018. For the first time since the Vietnam War, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is paying a visit to a Vietnamese port, seeking to bolster both countries' efforts to stemÃâà...
The Whit Online
December 31, 1999
Agent Orange was a wise, planned political move by the U.S. starting in 1962 during the Vietnam War. It was used to eliminate forest coverage as well as crops that enemy South Vietnam could utilize. In January of 1962, United States helicopters flew over South Vietnam and ended up spraying more thanÃâà...
SBS
December 31, 1999
In this week's Dateline, reporter Ade Adepitan investigates the legacy of a toxic herbicide dropped by US forces during the Vietnam War, which some doctors believe is causing health problems in a new generation of children. We meet children with debilitating birth defects, that are believed to stem fromÃâà...
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