Agent Orange in Vietnam

While hiking in Vietnam, I was wondering about possible health effects for me — even decades later.

Agent Orange is a chemical herbicide and defoliant …

It was used by the U.S. military … during the Vietnam War from 1962 to 1971.

… the Vietnamese Red Cross estimates that up to one million people were disabled or have health problems as a result of exposure to Agent Orange …

… documented cases of leukemia, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and various kinds of cancer in exposed U.S. military veterans. …