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Agent Orange July 2010 Newsletter.
The following information is from Gary "Ouch" Boucher
FOR MORE INFORMATION IN MICHIGAN REFER TO:
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA MICHIGAN
STATE COUNCIL.
PHIL S. SMITH
STATE SERVICE DIRECTOR
477 MICHIGAN AVE., 12TH
FLOOR, ROOM 1231
DETROIT,MICHIGAN 48226-2518
1-800-8826424 FAX: 313-961-0091
E-MAIL: [email protected]
TO LEARN THE HISTORY OF AGENT ORANGE REFER TO:
US Vet DSP
(WITH ARTICLES
ON):
STUDY CANCELED
PLANTS GIVEN CANCER
ARMY EXPERIMENTS WITH DEADLY
DEFOLIANTS
RAINBOW HERBICIDES
SIX TO TWENTY-FIVE TIMES STRONGER THAN
RECOMMENDED
MAKERS KNEW DANGER TO HUMANS
CONCERN OVER DIOXINS KEPT QUIET
AIR
FORCE KNEW OF HEALTH DANGER
MILITARY DOWN PLAYS USE OF HERBICIDES
MIST DRIFT
PROJECT PINK ROSE
DEFOLIANTS DUMPED ON PEOPLE & INTO WATER SUPPLIES
CHEMICAL
COMPANY EMPLOYEES DEVELOP SKIN PROBLEMS
STATE DEPARTMENT EXONERATES CHEMICAL
COMPANIES
USE OF CHEMICALS CONTINUES IN VIETNAM
ADVANTAGES VERSES DISADVANTAGES
DISCUSSED
ORANGE AEROSOL DISCOVERED
LAB TESTS ON ANIMALS CURTAIL SOME USE OF
AGENT ORANGE
USE OF AGENT ORANGE FINALLY ENDED
VETS BEGIN DEVELOPING HEALTH
PROBLEMS
EPA BANS USE OF AGENT ORANGE IN THE U.S.A.
CLASS ACTION SUIT FILED
TIMES BEACH
AMA DOWNPLAYS DIOXIN DANGER
STUDIES CONTRADICTORY & CONFUSING
LAWSUIT SETTLED- VETS WIN, BUT LOSE
TEST RESULTS CONTINUE TO BE MIXED
WHITE
HOUSE COVER-UP
STUDY CALLED A FRAUD
MONTGOMERY HOLDS UP AGENT ORANGE
LEGISLATION
BIZARRE FINDING
HOUSE COMMITTEE SAY STUDY FLAWED
POLITICS &
MONEY MORE IMPORTANT THAN HUMAN LIVES
SOME DEFY CDC STUDY
GOVERNMENT PLAYS
WAITING GAME
RAINBOW HERBICIDES & THEIR COMPONENTS:
AGENT ORANGE II(SUPER
ORANGE): 2, 4-D &2, 4, 5-T; USED IN 68 & 69
AGENT PURPLE: 2, 4-D &2, 4, 5-T; USED
BETWEEN JAN. 62 & 64
AGENT PINK: 2, 4, 5-T; USED BETWEEN 62 & 64
AGENT GREEN: 2,
4, 5-T; USED BETWEEN 62 & 64
AGENT WHITE PICLORAM & 2, 4-D
AGENT BLUE CONTAINED
CACODYLIC ACID (ARSENIC).
DINOXOL: 2, 4-D & 2, 4, 5-T; USED BETWEEN 62 & 64
TRINOXOL: 2, 4, 5-T; USED BETWEEN 62 & 64
DIQUAT: USED BETWEEN 62 & 64
BROMACIL
USED BETWEEN 62 & 64
TANDEX: USED BETWEEN 62 & 64
MONURON: USED BETWEEN 62 &
64
DIURON: USED BETWEEN 62 & 64
DALAPON: USED BETWEEN 62 & 64
LEARN HEALTH PROBLEMS REFER TO:
Agent
Landscaper
TO LEARN ABOUT THE NUMBER OF GALLONS USED, ACRES EFFECTED,
AND
TOTAL SQ. MILES EFFECTED REFER TO:
Landscaper.net
* CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
(CLL).
* PROSTATE CANCER.
* PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY (ACUTE AND SUB-ACUTE)
*
DIABETES TYPE II AND SECONDARY CONDITIONS DUE TO DIABETES (I.E. HARDENING ARTERIES,
STROKE, PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE, HIGH BLOOD PREEURE, HEART OR BLOOD VESSEL DAMAGE,
GUM, EYE OR KIDNEY, PANCREATIC DISEASE, POOR HEALING, ANY OTHER CONDITION BROUGHT ON BY
DIABETES II).
* SPINA BIFIDA IN CHILDREN OF VIETNAM VETERANS,
* CHLORACNE (ONE
YEAR) SKIN SORE, BLISTERS, CYSTS.
* NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA.
* PORPHYRIA CUTANEA
TARA (ONE YEAR) FRAGILE SKIN, SORES (EROSIONS), BLISTERS AND TINY CYSTS.
*
RESPIRATORY CANCERS, INCLUDING CANCER OF THE * LUNG * LARYNX
* BRONCHUS *
TRACHEA
* MULTIPLE MYELOMA (CANCER OF THE PLASMA CELL).
* HODGKIN'S DISEASE.
* SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS: SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS ARE MALIGNANT (CANCEROUS) TUMORS DEVELOP IN
FAT, MUSCLE, NERVE, FIBROUS TISSUES SURROUNDING JOINTS, BLOOD VESSEL, OR DEEP SKIN
TISSUES. HALF OF THEM DEVELOP IN THE ARMS OR LEGS. THE REST BEGIN IN THE TRUNK, HEAD AND
NECK AREA. INTERNAL ORGANS SUCH AS LUNGS, OR ABDOMINAL CAVITY.
* ADULT
FIBROSARCOMA
* DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS
* MALIGNANT FIFROUS
HISTIOCYTOMA
* LIPOSARCOMA
* LEIOMYOSARCOMA
* EPITHELIOID LEIOMYOSARCOMA
(MALIGNANT LEIOMYOBLASTOMA)
* RHABDOMYOSARCOMA
* ECTOMESENCHYMOMA
*
ANGIOSARCOMA (HEMANGIOSARCOMA AND LYMPHANGIOSARCOMA)
* PROLIFERATING (SYSTEMIC)
ANGIOENDOTHELIOMATOSIS
* MALIGNANT GLOMUS TUMOR
* MALIGNANT
HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA
* SYNOVIAL SARCOMA (MALIGNANT SYNOVIOMA)
* MALIGNANT GIANT
CELL TUMOR OF TENDON SHEATH
* MALIGNANT SCHWANNOMA, INCLUDING MALIGNANT SCHWANNOMA
WITH RHABDOMYOBLASTIC DIFFERENTIATION (MALIGNANT TRITON TUMOR), GLANDULAR AND
EPITHELIOID MALIGNANT SCHWANNOMAS
* MALIGNANT MESENCHYMOMA
* MALIGNANT GRANULAR
CELL TUMOR
* ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA
* EPITHELIOID
* CLEAR CELL SARCOMA
OF TENDONS AND APONEUROSES
* EXTRASKELETAL EWING'S SARCOMA
* CONGENITAL AND
INFANTILE FIBROSARCOMA
* MALIGNANT GANGLIONEUROMA
* CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
(CLL).
* PROSTATE CANCER.
* PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY (ACUTE AND SUB-ACUTE)
*
DIABETES TYPE II AND SECONDARY CONDITIONS DUE TO DIABETES (I.E. HARDENING ARTERIES,
STROKE, PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE, HIGH BLOOD PREEURE, HEART OR BLOOD VESSEL DAMAGE,
GUM, EYE OR KIDNEY, PANCREATIC DISEASE, POOR HEALING, ANY OTHER CONDITION BROUGHT ON BY
DIABETES II).
* SPINA BIFIDA IN CHILDREN OF VIETNAM VETERANS,
* CHLORACNE (ONE
YEAR) SKIN SORE, BLISTERS, CYSTS.
* NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA.
* PORPHYRIA CUTANEA
TARA (ONE YEAR) FRAGILE SKIN, SORES (EROSIONS), BLISTERS AND TINY CYSTS.
* RESPIRATORY CANCERS, INCLUDING CANCER OF THE:
* LUNG * LARYNX
* BRONCHUS *
TRACHEA
* MULTIPLE MYELOMA (CANCER OF THE PLASMA CELL).
* HODGKIN'S DISEASE.
* SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS: SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS ARE MALIGNANT (CANCEROUS) TUMORS DEVELOP IN
FAT, MUSCLE, NERVE, FIBROUS TISSUES SURROUNDING JOINTS, BLOOD VESSEL, OR DEEP SKIN
TISSUES. HALF OF THEM DEVELOP IN THE ARMS OR LEGS. THE REST BEGIN IN THE TRUNK, HEAD AND
NECK AREA. INTERNAL ORGANS SUCH AS LUNGS, OR ABDOMINAL CAVITY.
* ADULT
FIBROSARCOMA
* DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS
* MALIGNANT FIFROUS
HISTIOCYTOMA
* LIPOSARCOMA
* LEIOMYOSARCOMA
* EPITHELIOID LEIOMYOSARCOMA
(MALIGNANT LEIOMYOBLASTOMA)
* RHABDOMYOSARCOMA
* ECTOMESENCHYMOMA
*
ANGIOSARCOMA (HEMANGIOSARCOMA AND LYMPHANGIOSARCOMA)
* PROLIFERATING (SYSTEMIC)
ANGIOENDOTHELIOMATOSIS
* MALIGNANT GLOMUS TUMOR
* MALIGNANT
HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA
* SYNOVIAL SARCOMA (MALIGNANT SYNOVIOMA)
* MALIGNANT GIANT
CELL TUMOR OF TENDON SHEATH
* MALIGNANT SCHWANNOMA, INCLUDING MALIGNANT SCHWANNOMA
WITH RHABDOMYOBLASTIC DIFFERENTIATION (MALIGNANT TRITON TUMOR), GLANDULAR AND
EPITHELIOID MALIGNANT SCHWANNOMAS
* MALIGNANT MESENCHYMOMA
* MALIGNANT GRANULAR
CELL TUMOR
* ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA
* EPITHELIOID
* CLEAR CELL SARCOMA
OF TENDONS AND APONEUROSES
* EXTRASKELETAL EWING'S SARCOMA
* CONGENITAL AND
INFANTILE FIBROSARCOMA
* MALIGNANT GANGLIONEUROMA
* DAYTIME FLASHBACKS (RECURRENT INTRUSIVE MEMORIES, REPLAY EVENTS OVER & OVER)
* SERVICE ANNIVERSARY BLUES/DEPRESSION
* SADNESS
* ABUSIVE, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL
WITH FAMILY, DIFFICULTY WITH INTIMACY, TENDERNESS, SEX
* RAGE (SHORT TRIGGER,
UNPOVOKED IRRTABILITY, VIOLENCE
* ESCAPE (DRUGS, ALCOHOL, WORK, HOBBY)
*
QUIETNESS (KEEPS TO SELF)
* INTIMIDATE (DEMORALIZE OTHERS)
* NIGHTMARES/NIGHT
SWEATS
* GUILT FEELINGS, SHAME, NO ONE WILL UNDERSTAND
* DISENGAGEMENT (KEEPS TO
SELF DURING FAMILY ENGAGEMENTS, HOLIDAYS)
* FORGETFULNESS (NAMES, DATES, PLACES,
DAILY CHORES, ERRANDS)
* OVERWORK/UNDER WORK (NEEDSTO KEEP BUSY OR WANTS TO DO
NOTHING, MISS WORK)
* OVER COMPENSATION (OVERPOWERS FAMILY OR IGNORES THEM
*
LOSS OF FRIENDSHIPS WITH FAMILY/FRIENDS
* MOODS SWINGS
* ABANDONMENT (WORRIES
ABOUT LOSING LOVED ONES, JEALOUSY SUSPICIOUS) STIMULI/REMINDERS (SMELLS, SOUNDS,
WEATHER, ETC.)
* TROUBLE FALLING OR STAYING ASLEEP
* EXAGGERATED STARTLE
RESPNESE/JUMPY
* DIFFICULTY CONCENTRATING OR COMPLETING TASKS
* LACK OF PERSONAL
HYGIENE
* DIFFICULTY ADAPTING TO STRESSFUL SITUATIONS
* PANIC ATTACKS
*
SUICIDAL THOUGHTS
ONE OR MORE OF THESE SYMPTOMS COULD INDICATE PTSD AND MY BE COMPENSABLE BY THE VA.