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  1. Feb 22, 2024 · It contained dioxin, one of the most toxic chemicals known to science. Exposure to this herbicide has been linked to a plethora of serious health concerns such as cancer, neurological disorders, and birth defects in offspring. These family members of exposed veterans are often dubbed “Agent Orange kids” or “Agent Orange babies.”.

  2. Mar 16, 2016 · A more recent meta-analysis concluded that parental exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam appears to be associated with an increased risk of birth defects, but the conclusions are limited. American ...

  3. Feb 13, 2024 · A new study by scientists at Brown University reveals the mechanisms by which Agent Orange affects the brain and how those processes can lead to neurodegenerative diseases. The research shows that exposures to Agent Orange herbicidal chemicals damage frontal lobe brain tissue of laboratory rats with molecular and biochemical abnormalities that are similar to those found in early-stage ...

  4. Associations between Agent Orange and other dioxin-contaminated herbicides and structural birth defects like spina bifida, oral clefts, heart defects and hypospadias may be just the “tip of the iceberg”. The more frequent outcomes of prenatal exposure to dioxin may be in the area of immunological, neurological and neuroendocrine outcomes.

  5. Nov 12, 2018 · Agent Orange is a term that is used to describe a series of odorless herbicides that were used by the military to defoliate hiding places, fields and rice paddies that were used by the Viet Cong ...

  6. Mar 29, 2016 · The original report in this series, Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam 1 (VAO; IOM, 1994) contained a single chapter devoted to reproductive outcomes, as was the case through the publication of Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000, hereafter referred to as Update 2000 (IOM, 2001).

  7. Dec 16, 2016 · Indeed, when a preliminary analysis of the registry in 1983 showed no unusual health problems in Vietnam veterans, Alvin Young, the head of the VA’s Agent Orange Projects Office at the time ...

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