In Photos The Devastation Of Agent Orange Four Decades After The

In Photos The Devastation Of Agent Orange Four Decades After The From 1961 to 1971, the us army conducted 19,905 missions, spraying about 80 million litres of toxic chemicals, 61% of which was agent orange. it covered an area of 3.06 hectares, nearly a quarter. This story was first published in april 2015. 40 years since the end of the vietnam war, people in vietnam with severe mental and physical disabilities still feel the lingering effects of agent orange. respiratory cancer and birth defects amongst both vietnamese and u.s. veterans have been linked to exposure to the defoliant.

In Photos The Devastation Of Agent Orange Four Decades After The More than 10 years of u.s. chemical warfare in vietnam exposed an estimated 2.1 to 4.8 million vietnamese people to agent orange. more than 40 years on, the impact on their health has been staggering. Agent orange was a powerful herbicide used by u.s. military forces during the vietnam war to eliminate forest cover and crops for north vietnamese and viet cong troops. the u.s. program, codenamed. Hoang dinh nam afp getty images. hanoi, vietnam nearly four decades after the end of the vietnam war, the united states and vietnam on thursday began cleaning up the toxic chemical agent. Ca mau, vietnam a 78 year old japanese photojournalist who documented the vast and ongoing suffering caused by the use of agent orange by the u.s. military during the vietnam war returned to the.