Agent Orange Still Showing up in Vietnam

"Decades after the wartime defoliant Agent Orange was sprayed over Vietnam, toxic chemicals continue to contaminate Vietnamese people and the food they eat, according to a new study released Monday.

The finding, published in the August issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, found that six out of 16 food samples taken last year from around the southern city of Bien Hoa, a former U.S. air base, had levels of dioxin approaching those found during the Vietnam War...

Earlier studies have shown high dioxin levels in the bloodstream of residents of Bien Hoa, located 20 miles northeast of Ho Chi Minh City, including children born decades after the spraying and people who recently moved there...

Although Vietnam has never directly demanded compensation from the United States, it has said Washington has a moral responsibility to help heal the consequences of the war. "

Guys - I would HIGHLY recommend not relying on the good nature of the US government on this one. Perhaps you might like to formally ask the US to clean up the shit it left behind.....

P.

Full story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3015957,00.html