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Article: Vietnam Flashback.(diabetes-Agent Orange connection-)
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- Reason
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- July 1, 2000
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Does Agent Orange cause diabetes?
U.S. veterans groups have long considered Agent Orange, the controversial herbicide used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War, a bigger villain than Ho Chi Minh and Henry Kissinger combined. Agent Orange exposure has been blamed for virtually any disease Vietnam vets and their offspring have ever suffered since the soldiers finished their tours of duty. These include everything from recurring rashes, dizziness, nausea, migraine headaches, stomach aches, and clinical depression to a plethora of cancers and birth defects.
Congress and the Department of Veterans Affairs have responded with two official presumptions. ...