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Agent OrangeHealth Studies of Vietnamese Veterans and Civilians

Agent Orange: Health Studies of Vietnamese Veterans and Civilians [The opening and establishment of normal relations in 1995 between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam provided an opportunity for scientists, public health experts, and the media to visit Southern Vietnam, and attempt to assess the long-term impact of the defoliation program. However, since 1995 the issue of Agent Orange has been overshadowed by the rapid industrialization and the significant air and water pollution crisis. Recent reports have implicated air and water pollution as the largest causes today of diseases and premature deaths in Vietnam. Nevertheless, in the past 30 years there have been many monitoring and health studies associated with “hot spots”, where the US military stored and loaded RANCH HAND aircraft for defoliation and crop denial missions. Studies confirmed the continued presence of TCDD in soils of the hot spots, and in the blood serum and mother’s milk samples of peoples living near these locations. However, the dioxin and furan profiles clearly indicated other sources of TCDD such as industrial wastes and open burning were present in soils and biological samples. In 2007, a study by Hanoi Medical University of cancer mortality patterns during the 2-year period 2005–2006 from 10,769 commune health stations throughout Vietnam identified 93,719 cancer deaths. The three most common cancer sites for both men and women totaled 61,079 cases, and included 25,410 liver cancers, 22,209 lung cancers, and 13,460 stomach cancers. Causes were likely due to the high prevalence of infections of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Helicobacter pylori (Hp), and from air pollution.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Agent OrangeHealth Studies of Vietnamese Veterans and Civilians

Part of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 58)
Young, Alvin L.
Agent Orange — Jul 26, 2022
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-031-08186-6
Pages
171 –194
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-08187-3_10
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Abstract

[The opening and establishment of normal relations in 1995 between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam provided an opportunity for scientists, public health experts, and the media to visit Southern Vietnam, and attempt to assess the long-term impact of the defoliation program. However, since 1995 the issue of Agent Orange has been overshadowed by the rapid industrialization and the significant air and water pollution crisis. Recent reports have implicated air and water pollution as the largest causes today of diseases and premature deaths in Vietnam. Nevertheless, in the past 30 years there have been many monitoring and health studies associated with “hot spots”, where the US military stored and loaded RANCH HAND aircraft for defoliation and crop denial missions. Studies confirmed the continued presence of TCDD in soils of the hot spots, and in the blood serum and mother’s milk samples of peoples living near these locations. However, the dioxin and furan profiles clearly indicated other sources of TCDD such as industrial wastes and open burning were present in soils and biological samples. In 2007, a study by Hanoi Medical University of cancer mortality patterns during the 2-year period 2005–2006 from 10,769 commune health stations throughout Vietnam identified 93,719 cancer deaths. The three most common cancer sites for both men and women totaled 61,079 cases, and included 25,410 liver cancers, 22,209 lung cancers, and 13,460 stomach cancers. Causes were likely due to the high prevalence of infections of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Helicobacter pylori (Hp), and from air pollution.]

Published: Jul 26, 2022

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