Terrible Chemical Warfare Has Devastating Effects!

In the history books is written that the Vietnam War ended in 1975. But for the Vietnamese who came in contact with the so-called Agent Orange, combat continues, including today.

Lethal legacy he left an American army in Vietnam – by spreading Agent Orange defoliants and other chemicals during the war – began to feel barely a few decades: many of those who were exposed to PCBs suffer if today devastating effects, with poor health and giving birth to children with birth defects.

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. army has spread generously around 77 million gallons of chemical defoliants in South Vietnam. The aim was to reduce the dense jungle, causing defoliation in a fast drying and leaves hair so that communist guerrillas have no where to hide and run out of natural foods. At that time, the U.S. government provides everyone with a big mouth that these chemicals are 100% harmless to humans. In reality, herbicides contained one of the most virulent poisons to man – a dioxin called TCCD.

In the years after the war ended, studies began to reveal the true effects that Agent Orange had on people: 4.8 million Vietnamese were exposed to PCBs, 400,000 of them died due to contamination, 500,000 children with malformations have was born to exposed parents.

Today, five out of 100 Vietnamese children are born with physical or mental defects. In 2003, U.S. implicitly recognized the devastating effects of chemical warfare, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs began to pay compensation to Vietnamese mothers for each child born with one or more of the 18 malformations that cause dioxin.