Effects Of Agent Orange On The Vietnamese People Editorial Photo

Agent Orange is a chemical weapon most notably used by the US armed forces during the Vietnam War, classified as defoliant. Its primary purpose was strategic deforestation, destroying the forest cover and food resources necessary for the implementation and sustainability of the North Vietnamese style of guerilla warfare. the most current studies on the association between Agent Orange and birth defects have concluded that there is a statistically significant correlation such that having a parent who was exposed to Agent Orange at any point in their life will increase one`s likelihood of either possessing or acting as a genetic carrier of birth defects. CAPTION Mother with her child who suffers from birth defect at the street in Ho Chi MInh.