Agent Orange: Helping Vietnam Heal
Category: WORLDPOST
More than 12 million gallons of herbicides contaminated with dioxin, a known carcinogen, were sprayed in Southeast Asia during the war. The Vietnamese estimate that it affected the health of up to 3 million people, including several hundred thousand children who were born with disabilities.
By Susan Hammond, ContributorExecutive Director, War Legacies Project, 2014-04-24