In addition, the paper will discuss incidents relating to each respective chemical. Also depicted in this paper is the type of cancers caused by each chemical and other related health problems associated with each chemical. Finally, the role of government agencies such as FDA, EPA and OSHA in ...
VA expired in 2015 under the sunset clause of the Agent Orange Act of 1991. Through this process, the list of 'presumptive' conditions has grown since 1991, and currently the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has listed prostate cancer, respiratory cancers, multiple myeloma, type II ...
Reveals that US Congressional investigators are calling for an independent study to determine whether spraying of the defoliant, agent orange, from aircraft during the Vietnam War caused cancers and other illnesses in ground troops below. Criticism of a study by the Centers for Disease Control....
The VA says that certain cancers and other health problems can be caused byexposure to Agent Orange and the other herbicidesduring their military service. Veterans and their survivors may be eligible for benefits if they have one of these diagnoses. Amyloidosis, Chronic B-cell Leukemias, Chloracne...
Although these images of the victims of Napalm caused great controversy, Agent Orange was the silent, but much deadlier killer. The impact of the dioxins has affected as many as four million Vietnamese leading to cancers and terrible birth defects.Mrs. The had no idea her son was sick, ...
argue that there's no way to judge definitively whether a health problem has been caused by Agent Orange or the dioxins it contains [source:Glaberson]. But areas in Vietnam where Agent Orange was used showed and continue to show a high rate of certain diseases, birth defects and cancers....
USA: Agent orange 来自 Elsevier 喜欢 0 阅读量: 28 作者: Sibbison,B J. 摘要: Reveals that US Congressional investigators are calling for an independent study to determine whether spraying of the defoliant, agent orange, from aircraft during the Vietnam War caused cancers and other illnesses ...
The US government denied health damage was caused by Agent Orange. Later, it became apparent by considerable research that dioxin could cause many health problems in humans including certain cancers and some birth defects. Dioxin was later found by US and Vietnamese researchers in humans, food, ...
What illnesses are caused by Agent Orange? Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, soft-tissue sarcomas, chloracne, Hodgkin's disease, Porphyria cutanea tarda and respiratory cancers are some of the illnesses caused by Agent Orange. Multiple myeloma, Type 2 Diabetes, Parkinson's, bladder cancer, and hypothyroidis...
Agent Orange, mixture of herbicides that U.S. military forces sprayed in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971 during the Vietnam War for the dual purpose of defoliating forest areas that might conceal Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces and destroying crops that