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Re: "Agent Orange" Children
Xuan Minh, 3, watches from his bed at Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), which evidently houses many children with birth defects, including birth defects the Vietnamese attribute to Agent Orange exposure. He is believed to be suffering from the effects of the jungle defoliant Agent Orange, used heavily in the region by the U.S. Armed Forces during the Vietnam War.
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07-21-2014, 09:35 AM
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Re: "Agent Orange" Children
It wasn't the actual "agent orange" that caused most of these problems, it was a contaminant in the herbicide. I ripped this bit from Wikipedia Agent Orange was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical. It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called "Rainbow Herbicides".[4] The 2,4,5-T used to produce Agent Orange was contaminated with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD), an extremely toxic dioxin compound. In some areas, TCDD concentrations in soil and water were hundreds of times greater than the levels considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. |
.. reading the posts makes me as as sad as the pictures...
