Dioxin accumulates in the adipose tissue, the blood, and is passed through breast milk and has an extremely long half-life. It can suppress the immune system 100 times more effectively than cortisone. It is also a carcinogen. Its immunotoxic effects occur in extremely low doses. Many are dying from the insidious side effects of Agent Orange.
Symptoms can appear weeks or years after initial exposure.
He would see men choking and having violent convulsions after exposure. He passed if off as battle fatigue then. If a bomb crater full of water was found, soldiers would just scoop it out and drink it no matter how brown or scummy it looked, if there was nothing else to drink. Often these men would be covered with rashes, experience dizziness, be nauseous, suffer from migraine headaches, stomach cramps and black depression. If soldiers were on a spray mission, surveying an area, or were in combat, they often lived in the same clothing for days or even weeks.