Veterans Illnesses

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Veterans Illnesses

Veterans and Agent Orange

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 11 (2018). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange

By Fred Wilcox. “I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it,” said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country.

Dioxin Revisited: Developments Since the 1997 IARC Classification of Dioxin as a Human Carcinogen

The epidemiologic and toxicologic evidence since the IARC (1997) classification of TCDD as a human carcinogen has strengthened the case for IARC’s decision.

Sep 6, 2018

Veterans and Agent Orange

By the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine From 1962 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition...

Sep 6, 2011

Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange

By Fred Wilcox. An investigation of the scientific, legal, and moral issues raised by the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. "I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it," said a young...

Sep 7, 2004

Dioxin Revisited: Developments Since the 1997 IARC Classification of Dioxin as a Human Carcinogen

By Kyle Steenland, Pier Bertazzi, Andrea Baccarelli, and Manolis Kogevinas In 1997 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD; the...

Oct 27, 2020

Dioxins in Air Force Veterans

PCDDs, PCDFs, AND PCBs IN THE SERUM OF 800 US AIR FORCE VETERANS IN 2002 Pavuk M1, Patterson DG Jr2, Turner WE2, Robinson JN3, Needham LL2 Organohalogen Compounds Vol 68 (2006) [pdf-embedder...

Oct 27, 2020

Air Force Study

MORTALITY IN US AIR FORCE VETERANS OF OPERATION RANCH HAND Pavuk M1, Ketchum NS2, and Fox KA3 Organohalogen Compounds Vol 68 (2006) [pdf-embedder...