defoliant

• “The deaths continue to this day due to the long-term effects of the "defoliant" Agent Orange.”

  Signs of the Times

• “Mullen compares the persistent mysteries surrounding blast-related brain injuries to diseases tied to Agent Orange, a defoliant used during the Vietnam War that was ultimately found to cause illnesses in troops.”

  Joint Chiefs chairman seeks brain-injury limit

• “The government swooped in with an arsenal of pesticides: defoliant, weed killer, DDT.”

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• “In South Korea, an investigation is underway to determine if the toxic defoliant Agent Orange was buried at a U.S. military base three decades ago.”

  Voice of America: Environmental Investigation Underway on US Base in S. Korea

• “Agent Orange is a defoliant that was used during the Vietnam War era and known to cause cancer and other serious illnesses.”

  Voice of America: Environmental Investigation Underway on US Base in S. Korea

• “Now, this lady -- who is extremely savvy and is hardly a pushover -- happens to be a locavore convert, and she and her husband are going far out of their way to buy local, grass-fed meats, and chickens who eat worms, and vegetables that aren't sprayed with defoliant derivatives.”

  The Huffington Post: Elissa Altman: The Real L Word

• “Four times, he has had surgery to remove tumors he believes are related to his exposure to the defoliant Agent”

  D Magazine - The Truth about Viet Nam Vets

• “Orange, the defoliant U.S. forces sprayed from the air to uncover the hiding places of the Viet Cong and which is blamed for long-lasting ill effects on those it touched, and with personality changes resulting from the horrors they had survived.”

  Mike Grout

• “This infamous mixture of phenoxyacetic herbicides was used as a defoliant, to lay bare entire rain-forests so that the Vietcong had nowhere to hide.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Why We Must Learn to Love Weeds

• “South Korean and U.S. officials also say there is no evidence, at this stage, that the dioxin came from the defoliant Agent Orange.”

  Voice of America: No Evidence of Chemical Threat at US Military Base in S. Korea

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