Agent Orange
Agent Orange is one of several herbicide preparations used by the U.S. Defense Department to destroy forests and enemy crops in Vietnam in the 1960s. Agent Orange contains a 50:50 mixture...
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Agent Orange
Agent Orange is a herbicide recognized for its use during the Vietnam War. It is composed of equal parts of two chemicals: 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T. A less potent form of the herbicide has als...
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Exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam may lead to high blood pressure in some veterans, but the evidence is limited and only suggestive, the Institute of Medicine said Friday.The IOM, an arm of the N...
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More than three decades after the Vietnam War, the United States and Vietnam have just completed temporary steps to contain dioxin contamination at a former U.S. air base in Danang.But the U.S. gov...
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More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contam...
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The government is taking steps to preserve data and biological specimens from a quarter-century investigation into the effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans, having found an elevate...
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Hanoi (dpa) - Vietnamese news media reacted favourably Friday to
an announcement of new cooperative US-Vietnamese efforts to remedy
the damage done by Agent Orange, the chem...
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Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange received little encouragement from a federal appeals panel when they sought Monday to reinstate their claim that U.S. companies committed war crimes by making the...
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Canada will give a one-time payment of $19,200 to people who say their health was harmed by U.S. military Agent Orange spray programs at a base in eastern Canada 40 years ago, the defense minister ...
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The U.S. government will give Vietnam $400,000 toward cleaning up a former U.S. military base contaminated by Agent Orange, its biggest step yet toward resolving one of the most contentious legacie...
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Canada will give a one-time payment of $20,000 Canadian (US$19,200, euro13,800) to people who say their health was harmed by U.S. military Agent Orange spray programs at a base in eastern Canada 40...
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Exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam may lead to high blood pressure in some veterans, but the evidence is limited and only suggestive, the Institute of Medicine said Friday.The IOM, an arm of the N...
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