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| Approximately 20 million gallons of herbicides were used in Vietnam between 1962 and 1971 to remove unwanted plant life and leaves which otherwise provided cover for enemy forces during the Vietnam Conflict.Shortly following their military service in Vietnam, some veterans reported a variety of health problems and concerns which some of them attributed to exposure to Agent Orange or other herbicides.The Department of Veterans Affairs has developed a comprehensive program to respond to these medical problems and concerns.Agent Orange Handbook 1302.Vietnam service and diagnosed diabetes mellitus to contact his or her local VA office for information and assistance on applying for benefits.Please note: Some of the above forms and files require program specific document viewers.For Adobe Acrobat PDF: Click here to download the Acrobat Plugin.Environmental Health Strategic Health Care Group of the Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards.VA Internet footer hyperlinks
Version.........For other uses, see Agent Orange (disambiguation).Agent Orange and "Super Orange" were the nicknames given to the herbicide and defoliant used by the United States Armed Forces in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War.Degradation of Agent Orange (as well as Agents Purple, Pink, and Green) released dioxins, which have caused health problems for those exposed during the Vietnam War.Agents Blue and White were part of the same program but did not contain dioxins.American veterans of the Vietnam War were seeking recognition of Agent Orange, compensation and treatment for maladies that they and their children suffered from; many exposed to Agent Orange have not been able to receive promised medical care through the Veterans Administration medical system, and only with rare exception have their affected children received healthcare assistance from the government.Vietnam veterans and their families who brought the original Agent Orange lawsuit stated 25 years ago that the government "is just waiting for us all to die".Elsewhere, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand veterans obtained compensation in settlements that same year.Description
2 Use outside of Vietnam
2.Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada
2.Effects of the program
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Agent Orange, given its name from the 55 U.First introduced in 1946, these herbicides were in widespread use in agriculture by the middle of the 1950s and were first introduced in the agricultural farms of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.At the time Agent Orange was sold to the U.Diseases with limited evidence of an association with Agent Orange are respiratory cancers, prostate cancer, multiple myeloma, Porphyria cutanea tarda (a type of skin disease), acute and subacute transient peripheral neuropathy, spina bifida, Type 2 diabetes, and acute myelogenous leukemia found only in the second or third generation.Use outside of Vietnam
In September 2000, the Veteran Administration (VA) recognized that Agent Orange was used in Korea in the late 1960s.Republic of Korea troops are reported to have done the spraying, which occurred along the demilitarized zone with North Korea.The VA has also acknowledged that Agent Orange was used domestically by U.Agent Orange, in the forests near the Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in New Brunswick in 1966 and 1967.Agent Orange exposure at CFB Gagetown.Before her death, Shoecraft wrote a book about her experience in which she said that after she was sprayed her eyes were nearly swollen shut, her arms and legs were swollen twice normal size and her hair was coming out in patches.Kuron, an herbicide related to Agent Orange, was sprayed by the U.Dow Chemical Company and the U.New Jersey Agent Orange Commission
In 1980, New Jersey created the New Jersey Agent Orange Commission, the first state commission created to study its effects.The commission's research project in association with Rutgers University was called "The Pointman Project".The project compared dioxin levels in a small group of Vietnam veterans who had been exposed to Agent Orange with a group of matched veterans who had not served in Vietnam.The second phase of the project continued to examine and compare dioxin levels in various groups of Vietnam veterans including Army, Marines and brown water riverboat Navy personnel.Dioxin (VAVA), filed a lawsuit in a US Federal District Court in Brooklyn, New York, against several U.Dow Chemical and Monsanto were the two largest producers of Agent Orange for the U.Diamond Shamrock, Uniroyal, Thompson Chemicals, Hercules, etc.The judge concluded that Agent Orange was not considered a poison under international law at the time of its use by the U.Dioxin, the Vietnamese have established "Peace villages", which each host between 50 to 100 victims, giving them medical and psychological help.Vietnam and individuals who are aware and sympathetic to the impacts of Agent Orange have also supported these programs in Vietnam.An international group of Veterans from the U.The center provides medical care, rehabilitation and vocational training for children and veterans from Vietnam who have been impacted by Agent Orange.Agent Orange as side effects of the herbicide.After losing a decision in 2002, they filed an appeal.The ruling acknowledged that "the defendants failed to ensure safety as the defoliants manufactured by the defendants had higher levels of dioxins than standard", and, quoting the U.National Academy of Science report, declared that there was a "causal relationship" between Agent Orange and 11 diseases, including cancers of the lung, larynx and prostate.However, the judges failed to acknowledge "the relationship between the chemical and peripheral neuropathy, the disease most widespread among Agent Orange victims" according to the Mercury News.Canada lawsuit
In July 12, 2005, Merchant Law Group LLP on behalf of over 1,100 Canada veterans and civilians who were living in and around the CFB Gagetown filled a lawsuit to pursue Class Action Litigation concerning Agent Orange and Agent Purple to the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba.Until September 30, 2007, the case is still going.Miscellaneous
The Union Carbide company produced the constituents of Agent Orange at Homebush Bay in Sydney, Australia.The Uniroyal plant in Elmira, Ontario was one of seven suppliers producing Agent Orange for the U.Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange, has published a report on the impact of Agent Orange in Vietnam.Canadian company that researched Agent Orange contamination on behalf of the Vietnamese government has expressed 'shock' that in some areas of Vietnam, dioxin contamination is 300 to 400 times higher than the standard accepted levels.Dioxin Exposure and Type 2 Diabetes."Korea orders Agent Orange payments", Mercury News, January 26, 2006."Agent Orange Class Action", Merchant Law Group LLP."Spraying of Agent orange by US Army in Vietnam and its consequences".The Effects of Exposure to Agent Orange on the Intellectual Functioning, Academic Achievement, Visual Motor Skill, and Activity Level of the Offspring of Vietnam War Veterans.New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1981.Uhl, Michael, and Tod Ensign.New York: Playboy Press, 1981.Kerry: Agent Orange and an American Family.Waiting for an Army to Die.External links
Letters from Agent Orange victims in Vietnam and additional information to provide assistance.US Federal court ruling on the VAVA suit.Agent Orange and dioxin in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.Information about the long term health and environmental effects of Agent Orange in Southeast Asia and the US.Agent Orange, article with pictures (warning: uncensored, may be found shocking)
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Vietnam: War's Lasting Legacy.Video reports from the field on the lingering effects of Agent Orange.This page was last modified 07:05, 12 January 2008.Agent Orange is a punk band from Placentia, California.After the compilation album the group's then managers presented KROQ, Pasadena radio station's D.The result of these sessions was their first long player, Living In Darkness (originally released by Posh Boy Records in November 1981), as well as a single and one or two bonus tracks that later surfaced on some E.Living in Darkness that "We don't feel a part of that scene at all."They developed a following in Fullerton along with The Adolescents.Herbicides containing Dioxin were used by the U.AGENT ORANGE, A KILLER THEN AND A KILLER NOW!To win benefits, VA law and regulations also require that some of these conditions appear (or ?If your condition is not listed below, ask your doctor whether what you have is similar to any of these.Under the VA rule, soft
tissue sarcoma does not include osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Kaposi?Ca Mau Peninsula, a scene of heavy communist activity.January 1965 and April
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insignificant because the Dioxin is still being found in heavy concentration's
to this day in Vietnam (1999)!Volunteer your time and talents to the nearest Vet Center or veterans
organization.Investigate what services are available from your state for veterans and how
well those services are delivered.Encourage civic organizations, unions, and business associations to which you
belong to take a stand on veterans?There are limits on when you can
pay a lawyer to help you with a VA claim.Then you have only one year to hire a
lawyer.Many lawyers work on a contingency basis that means you do not have to
pay them a fee up front and if you do not win benefits, you will not have to
pay a fee.If you use a third
party to hire a lawyer, the lawyer can represent you at the beginning of a
claim.It is available only to a limited number of persons who
meet income guidelines.VA medical center and request an AGENT ORANGE REGISTRY HEALTH EXAMINATION.See your local phone book for more listings.Additional information on Spina Bifida is available from the Spina Bifida Association of America.Spina Bifida Association of America at 2590 MacArthur Blvd.General information regarding the health consequences of exposure to enviromental agents (AFGHANISTAN VETERANS, GULF WAR, AGENT ORANGE, IONIZING RADIATION, SHAD and more...WANT to see more photos of AGENT ORANGE??APPLY for an Award
Link to Cyber Sarge?If you do not have Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat software installed, you may download free viewer and reader software to view the documents cited on this page.VA's Agent Orange Helpline.Must occur within one year of exposure to Agent Orange).This website is dedicated to the surviving spouses and dependents of military personnel who died while in active military service and to the survivors of veterans who died after active service."Do you owe the VA money?Your rights and obligations.Give you information about how the amount of your debt was calculated.The official US federal government benefits information website."Your 'front door' to the US Government."The Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange Trust
The Trust's latest project is to raise enough money to buy 75 cows for Agent Orange victims in Phong Dien district north of Hue in central Vietnam.It wants to do so by August 2008.All the money we receive, 100 per cent, goes to the recipients.Americans sprayed over the forests and fields of central and south Vietnam to rob the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army of cover, particularly around allied bases.Of those one million people, hundreds of thousands are children with genetic deformities, the innocent victims of a war fought long before they were born.Scientists link those deformities with the poison dioxin (TCDD) in the spray.The Scale of Spraying
Between 1961 and 1971 the US sprayed 77 million litres, 8800 tonnes, of Agent Orange over an area of 2.It contained the dioxin TCDD, which was present in an average two parts per million (ppm), but ranging up to 50 ppm.He saw the planes spraying.As early as 1964, while the spraying was increasing in Vietnam, reports circulated of increased miscarriages, stillbirths and birth defects among Vietnamese women and animals.Records from 1970 for Saigon's leading maternity hospital showed a monthly average of 140 miscarriages and 150 premature births in 2800 pregnancies.In December 1970 then President Richard Nixon called a halt to spraying, but it was not until October 1971 that the last spray was applied.US Veterans Get Compensation
Some of the 2.By 1998 nearly 6000 US veterans had qualified for compensation related to their exposure to Agent Orange.Agent Orange Still in the Soil
An independent team of scientists from Canada, Hatfield Consultants, has examined land in central Vietnam today and found that Agent Orange is still evident in the soil.We should not think of this as an historical problem.The dioxins that are present are entering the food chain today, and also being taken up by the people living in the area today.The Australian Connection
Australian journalist Bruce Montgomery, Vietnam veteran Don Killion, and geologist Tony Brown went to Vietnam in October 2001 to see what they might be able to do to help.Killion had been a medic working with the Americans in Hue in 1969.Like many vets, he had experienced difficulties adjusting to normal life after Vietnam.The three Australians have set up an Australian trust, the Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange Trust, to raise money for children in that part of central Vietnam, Thua Thien Hue province, the area around Hue, where Killion had spent his war years.Luoi is a mountainous district on the western side of Thua Thien Hue province.The population is distributed mainly in the A Luoi and A So valleys, and along National Road 14, which is crossed by the Ho Chi Minh trail.Many parts of the district were sprayed with the Agent Orange during the American War.The ramifications have been very serious.Not only have forests being permanently destroyed, many families bear the burden of having handicapped children due to the effects of Agent Orange.These families face many difficulties in life and achieving self sufficiency due to antiquated farming techniques and poor animal husbandry.For families with handicapped members affected by Agent Orange, life becomes harder and harder.Hong Kim and Hong Quang communes are among those facing the greatest difficulties.The project aims to raise enough to pay for, in this latest case, 75 cows and animal husbandry for some of the poorest people in central Vietnam so that they may escape their poverty and be better equipped to take care of and support family members suffering disabilities suspected to have been caused by Agent Orange.Now the plan is to do the same thing in the Phong Dien district.Contact
To find out more about the Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange Trust or to donate to our latest project, click here to contact us.What was Agent Orange?Agent Orange was a herbicide developed for military use.These herbicides were both developed as weed killers in the 1940's, and were effective against broad leaf plants and several crops.Why did the military use herbicides?In dense terrain particularly, the use of herbicides to destroy covering vegetation was to protect American and allied troops from ambush or other undetected movement of the enemy.Prior to it's introduction for use in Vietnam, was Agent Orange used in the United States?During the testing phase of Agent Orange, use tests were carried out at Fort Detrick, Maryland, Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, and Camp Drum in New York.Why was the product called Agent Orange?Who were the manufacturers who produced Agent Orange for the military?The official name of the lawsuit was Multidistrict litigation 381 (MDL 381), and was designated In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation.There is no such thing as an Agent Orange Test.This is often confused with two things:
1.It does not detect Agent Orange exposure.This physical is useful only as any routine physical is useful in early detection of disease or health problems.Dioxin is the unwanted byproduct in Agent Orange).The VA does not perform these tests.Can I sue the government or the chemical companies?Title 38 of the United States Code prohibits veterans from suing the government for injuries suffered while in the military.Additional attempts to sue the manufacturers have been attempted, and have been prohibited by the courts.Diamond Shamrock was supported in behalf of the plaintiff by attorney generals in all fifty states, the Supreme Court, however, refused to hear the arguments and that case ended in 1992.Air force Photo)
Welcome to the Agent Orange Website.This website is an attempt to provide information about the herbicide Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War, and the results of exposure to this herbicide.As this site grows, we will attempt to add references and documentation.This is an ardous task, however, and we hope you will bear with us as we proceed.Agent Orange was the code name for a herbicide developed for the military,
primarily for use in tropical climates.An estimated 19
million gallons of Agent Orange were used in South Vietnam during the war.The earliest health concerns about Agent Orange were about the product's
contamination with TCDD, or dioxin.TCDD is one of a family of dioxins,
some found in nature, and are cousins of the dibenzofurans and pcb's.The TCDD found in Agent Orange is thought to be harmful to man.In
laboratory tests on animals, TCDD has caused a wide variety of diseases,
many of them fatal.The
Agent Orange used in Vietnam was later found to be extremely contaminated
with TCDD.We are not an "official" source of any kind and present this information solely as private citizens. |
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