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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . For more than a decade Vietnam veterans have sought compensation for illnesses they believe were caused by their wartime exposure to herbicides, which were used heavily during the war to defoliate the jungle, to reduce available cover for enemy troops. Agent Orange was the military code name for the chemical herbicide used most often in Vietnam to defoliate the jungle. Anyone exposed to Agent Orange is presumed to have been exposed to dioxins. The VA does not allow consideration of animal studies, so only human data were evaluated for the 1990 report.