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[O]n May 7, 1984, came the news that the Agent Orange lawsuit, filed two years earlier, had been settled. Prodded by U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein, attorneys for the veterans and the chemical companies reached an agreement at 4 a.m. the morning the case was to go to trial. At that time, 15,000 veterans and their relatives were involved in the suit, but about 250,000 subsequently filed claims.
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In order to assist those who have been impacted by Agent Orange/Dioxin, the Vietnamese have established "Peace villages", which each host between 50 to 100 victims, giving them medical and psychological help. As of 2006, there were 11 such villages... granting some social protection to fewer than a thousand victims. U.S. veterans of the war in Vietnam and individuals who are aware and sympathetic to the impacts of Agent Orange have also supported these programs in Vietnam. An international group of Veterans from the U.S. and its allies during the Vietnam war working together with their former enemy - veterans from the Vietnam Veterans Association - established the Vietnam Friendship Village[3] located outside of Hanoi. The center provides medical care, rehabilitation and vocational training for children and veterans from Vietnam who have been impacted by Agent Orange.
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According to documents revealed during the course of civil litigation against the chemical manufacturers of Agent Orange, Dow had for years been receiving reports of severe chloracne associated with the manufacturer of chlorophenols. In 1937, some 400 lumber workers using tetrachlorophenol developed chloracne, urinary disturbances, skin lesions lasting years, and marked hyperkeratosis. In 1949, 228 workers at a Monsanto 2,4,5-T plant in Nitro, West Virginia developed chloracne as the result of an industrial accident, and the chloracne continued to afflict workers at the plant for 20 years. The situation moved Monsanto's medical director to comment: "I don't want to be cynical, but are there any employees in the Department who don't have chloracne already?"
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam studies. The committee began its evaluation presuming neither the existence nor the absence of association. It has sought to characterize and weigh the strengths and limitations of the available evidence. These judgments have both quantitative and qualitative aspects. They reflect the nature of the exposures, health outcomes, and populations at issue; the characteristics of the evidence examined; and the approach taken to evaluate that evidence. To facilitate independent assessment of the committee's conclusions, Chapter 5 describes as explicitly as possible the methodological considerations that guided the committee's review and its process of evaluation.
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This report, Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2002, is the fourth in a series examining the impact of chemical defoliants, including Agent Orange, and their contaminants on human health. In previous updates on the health risk to veterans posed by exposure to Agent Orange and other chemicals used in Vietnam, all forms of leukemia were considered collectively when examining research on links between exposure to herbicides and the risk for cancer. The combined evidence was found to be inadequate or insufficient to determine whether any association exists between leukemia and exposure to the herbicides or contaminants in them. However, a recent re-examination of the evidence revealed sufficient evidence of an association between exposure to herbicides sprayed during the Vietnam War and the risk for development of a specific form of leukemia - chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) - in veterans.
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