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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2012 (Veterans Health) by Institute of Medicine, Board on the Health of Select Populations, Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Ninth Biennial Update), Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Tenth Biennial Update), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is a medicine available to read on EtoBox.
What is Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2012 (Veterans Health) about?
From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that those forces might depend on, and to clear tall grasses and bushes from the perimeters of US base camps and outlying fire-support bases. Mixtures of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T), picloram, and cacodylic acid made up the bulk of the herbicides sprayed. The main chemical mixture sprayed
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- Author
- Institute of Medicine, Board on the Health of Select Populations, Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Ninth Biennial Update), Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Tenth Biennial Update), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- Publisher
- National Academies Press (US)
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780309288897
- Category
- medicine
- Subjects
- Medical, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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