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​ **//__The Deadly Killer ! By: Audrey Staggs__//**

​ Agent Orange is a defoliant with high amounts of dioxin, there are test that can be taken to see the amounts of dioxin in your body. Agent orange is a 50/50 mix of two chemicals, those two chemicals are dichlorophenoxyacetic acid,trichlorophenoxyacetic acid. These herbicides were both developed as weed killers in the 1940's, and were effective against broad leaf plants and several crops. Herbicides were developed to be deployed in enemy areas to deny cover and concealment to the enemy. In dense terrain particularly, the use of herbicides to destroy covering and make the enemies evacuate, Agent orange can cause Sarcoma a skin defect & Hodgkin’s disease & Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Trichlorophenoxyacetic & Dichlorophenoxyaceticorange these two chemicals were originally made to kill wide broad leaved plants basically, Agent Orange was used to make enemies to reveal themselves, it’s a dangerous defoliant that is used in combat & warfare that causes many birth defects & death’s, because the chemicals were originally made to be put on broad leafed plants. Citations -** . **,** .. . **,** .
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by; Alex Rice
 * //​__Effects from Agent Orange__ //**

There was ** 500,000 ** children born with birth defects as a result of agent orange. Agent Orange causes things like cancer, mental disabilities, hernias, and extra fingers and toes. One of the defects is called Spina Bifida. If babies with birth defects survive, they usually require extensive and expensive medical care. In addition, they may have life long disabilities.

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__Deadly Effects By: Taylor Hart __

According to vetnamese ministry of foreign affairs, 4.8 million people were exposed to agent orange, the result was 400,000 people dying. Most of the people who died, died of cancer. When the chemical got into the air, the people of the villages would breath it in and as a result got lung cancer. 13% of men got prostate cancer from agent orange & because agent orange is such a slow growing tumor, most men went un-treated and died from other causes due to having this slow growing cancer that's hard to detect in the earlier stages of it. It's a fact that most of the Veterans ended up dying of cancer and were more likely to just because of the fact they were exposed to the herbicide agent orange. the places where the cancer usually occurred was, the lymph nodes & of course lung cancer from inhaling the dioxin in Agent orange.

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__ The Aftermath, By: Abi Browning __

The statistics for this devastating chemical destruction came out to be 2.1 to 4.8 million affected, 400,000 deaths and disabilities, 500,000 children born with birth defects… A series of lawsuits came about when people started realizing and experiencing the effects of Agent Orange. Those lawsuits culminated into a class action lawsuit in the 1980’s by U.S. Veterans versus the chemical companies that produced Agent Orange. There were 37 companies involved. The major ones were Dow Chemical, Monsanto (now Solutia), Diamond Shamrock, Hercules, and Uniroyal. (A nurse and a very small handful of the children affected by Agent Orange)

In 2005, a similar lawsuit was filed by the Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange against the chemical companies that produced the defoliant/herbicides. However, the same judge from the 1984 trial dismissed the lawsuit, the reason being “that the use of these chemicals during the war, although they were toxic, did not in his opinion fit the definition of ‘chemical warfare’ and therefore did not violate international law.” In 2009, the US Supreme Court once again dismissed the lawsuit of Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange. In recently years, numerous programs have helped decontaminate affected areas as well as provide care and compensation for victims. In 2007, President Bush passed a bill that allocated $3 million in funding to remedy “dioxin hotspots.” In 2009, President Obama signed a bill to double that aid, ensuring $6 million to the program. <http://www.lewispublishing.com/orange.htm>. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><hptt://[|www.**agentorange**.net/]>
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