Veterans and agent orange: length of presumptive period for association between exposure and respiratory cancer
Auteur :
Institute of Medicine / Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention / Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides
Éditeur :
National Academies Press
ISBN :
9780309091886
Date de publication :
2 avr. 2004
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
From 1962 to 1971, US military forces sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that helped conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that enemy forces might depend on, and to clear tall grasses and bushes from the perimeters of US base camps and outlying fire-support bases.