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Article: DISEASE DATA *AGENT ORANGE STUDY STUMBLES.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 1, 1987
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Byline: Philip M. Boffey New York Times
Federal scientists have concluded that they cannot proceed with a major congressionally mandated study on the effects of Agent Orange on American ground soldiers in Vietnam because they are unable to find enough soldiers who were exposed to significant levels of the herbicide.
The finding, which appears to contradict the popular image that ground troops were in frequent contact with chemicals used to defoliate the jungle, has been relayed by the Centers for Disease Control in recent weeks to key Agent Orange advisory committees in the administration and Congress. Neither the Reagan administration nor Congress has ...