Agent Orange词源中文解释 "橙剂"是美国军队在越南战争中使用的一种强效落叶剂,据报道从1961年开始使用; 其名称源于容器侧面的彩色条纹,以区别于美国军队使用的其他除草剂,如 Agent Blue 、Agent White 等; 参见 agent(名词)。自1970年4月起被禁止使用。
During the Vietnam war, large amounts of the herbicide Agent Orange were sprayed over the Vietnam countryside. Agent Orange consisted of the butyl esters of the herbicides 2.4-D and 2,4,5,-T, and was contaminated with the dioxin 2,3,7,8-TCDD, the most toxic dioxin congener in animals...
Agent Orange and the other toxic herbicides to which they had been exposed in Vietnam. Veterans began to file claims in 1977 to the Department of Veterans Affairs for disability payments for health care for conditions they believed were associated with exposure to Agent Orange, or more ...
The Commission concluded that Vietnam veterans were not exposed to toxic levels of chemicals in Vietnam; that they are not at any increased risk of fathering children with birth defects, or contracting cancer; and that, although they have slightly higher rates of psychiatric disorder, heart ...
Agent Orange was a 50/50 mixture of two herbicides: 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) and 2,4,5-T (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid). Other herbicide agents were mixtures of other equally toxic polychlorinated compounds, but every barrel was contaminated by substantial amounts of ...
Agent Orange was created by mixing equal quantities of two agricultural herbicides commonly used to kill weeds: 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T. Present in the 2,4,5-T as an impurity was 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (usually abbreviated to TCDD), a dioxin contaminant that is highly toxic ...
Agent orange exposure modeling: fallacies and errors 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 22 作者:SD Stellman,JM Stellman 摘要: JES publishes research important to exposure assessment for toxic substances, environmental epidemiology and related disciplines that advance the exposure assessment process....
Veterans exposed during the Vietnam war to Agent Orange/dioxin, who seek treatment for their children and themselves, are the principal subjects of this gripping documentary — an unsparing look at chemical warfare, herbicides, toxic waste, and the fraught yet enduring military-industrial complex. ...
JES publishes research important to exposure assessment for toxic substances, environmental epidemiology and related disciplines that advance the exposure assessment process.doi:10.1038/jes.2014.29Ginevan, Michael ERoss, John HWatkins, Deborah KJournal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology...
Agent Orangecardiac amyloidosiscase reportgeriatricsrestrictive cardiomyopathyMuch research has focused on the association between the toxic metabolites of the tactical herbicide Agent Orange and several blood cancers, including systemic amyloid light-chain (AL) amyloidosis. Here we present a rare case of ...