Veterans Affairs official downplays Agent Orange risks, questions criticsCharles Ornstein
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs claimed that Agent Orange had only "minute traces" of dioxin (in this case, the potent dioxin known as TCDD), but areas where Agent Orange was sprayed or stored show high concentrations of the compound. In some areas of Vietnam, people have bl...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) needs to reverse its current policy and allow all veterans of the Vietnam War to be eligible for treatment from the effects of exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange, said the leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. During a May 5 ...
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Agent Orange Mission Statement Decent Essays 1267 Words 6 Pages Open Document Throughout history, war has been one of the few constants that has never changed, because of this many have tried to aid those affected by it. In America, the Department of Veterans Affairs(VA) was created in ...
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 ...
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released in January an updated Department of Defense (DOD) list of locations outside of Vietnam where tactical
The name was derived See Also ▶ Parkinson's Disease References and Readings US Department of Veterans Affairs. Facts About Herbicides. Retrieved January 24, 2017, from http://www. publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/basics.asp. # Springer International Publishing AG 2017 J. Kreutzer et ...
“Opening up eligibility for this deserving group of Air Force veterans and reservists is the right thing to do,” said VA Secretary Bob McDonald in a statement. The toxicity of Agent Orange According to the non-partisan Aspen Institute in Washington D.C., Agent Orange was a herbicide used...