Agent orange

Agent Orange Link Diabetes Strongly Associated With Vietnam Exposure to Pesticide U.S. Air Force planes spray the defoliant chemical Agent Orange over dense vegetation in South Vietnam in this 1966 photo. Dioxin is the component of Agent Orange linked to many health effects in laboratory animals. (AP Photo) By Robert Burns The Associated Press W A S H I N G T O N, March 29 — An Air Force study released today confirmed a connection, long …showed first 75 words of 705 total…

…showed last 75 words of 705 total…of its citizens are victims of Agent Orange. The study was started in 1981 and the first physical examinations of exposed Air Force veterans were done a year later. The work is to be completed in 2006. The Vietnam Veterans of America and other groups have criticized the study as being too small and they have accused the Air Force of being too secretive about its findings and too slow to make them available to other researchers.