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LEGACY OF AGENT ORANGE


1. A group of boys play together at a center for Agent Orange victims in Danang, Vietnam, May 21, 2007. More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.



2. A physically and mentally disabled child sits on the steps of a hospital ward at a "peace village" center in the village of Thuy An, Vietnam, which houses people suffering from illnesses and deformities associated with contact to dioxin in chemical defoliant Agent Orange, May 15, 2007.


3. Children return to their beds after bath time at the "PeaceVillage" center at Tu Du hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, May 25, 2007. According to hospital staff, the children suffer from Spina Bifida, which badly disfigures the limbs and is suspected to be caused by their parents' exposure to dioxin in the chemical defoliant Agent Orange.



4. Thirteen-year-old Tran Minh Anh, left, who was born in Long An Province and suffers from a disease called X-linked ichthyosis, is tied down to a bed to protect from hurting himself at the "Peace Village" of Tu Du hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, May 25, 2007. On the right is Nguyen Xuan Minh, age 6. According to hospital staff, both boys are suffering from conditions suspected to have been caused by exposure by their parents to dioxin in the chemical defoliant Agent Orange.



5. Trien Meng Hiep, 9, against wall, is hugged by another boy at a "PeaceVillage" center in Tu Du hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in this May 25, 2007. Both of the boys were born with severe physical deformities typical of spina bifida and which hospital officials suspect to have been caused by their parents exposure to dioxin in the chemical defoliant Agent Orange.



6. Nguyen Xuan Minh, age 6, rests in his bed at the "PeaceVillage" of Tu Du hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, May 25, 2007. According to hospital staff, the boy is suffering from physical deformities suspected to have been caused by his parents' exposure to dioxin in the chemical defoliant Agent Orange.



7. Five-year-old girl Tran Huynh Thuong Sinh, who was born without eyes in the Binh Dinh province of Vietnam, is fed breakfast by a nurse at the "Peace Village" center at Tu Du hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 25, 2007. Officials at the hospital suspect that the dioxin in Agent Orange blocks the receptors in a developing fetus, preventing the hormones that would normally instruct the cells to form eyes from doing so.



8. Nguyen Thi Kieu Nhung holds photos of herself between her badly deformed legs at her family home next to the Danang airbase in Danang, Vietnam, May 21, 2007. The girl was born with physical deformities, including twisted limbs, a misshapen head, and protruding eyes suspected by local health officials to be caused by dioxin in the chemical defoliant Agent Orange. The U.S. government has agreed to pay to contain the dioxin found in extremely high levels around Danang Airbase which once housed a U.S. military airbase where the defoliant Agent range was stored and loaded on to planes.



9. Two young girls play in their village, seen through a door in the wall of the Danang airbase in Danang, Vietnam, in this May 21, 2007. More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.



10. Nguyen Thi Kieu Nhung sits inside her family home next to the Danang airbase in Danang, Vietnam, May 21, 2007. The girl was born with physical deformities, including twisted limbs, a misshapen head, and protruding eyes suspected by local health officials to have been caused by dioxin in the chemical defoliant Agent Orange. More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.



11. Neighborhood children look through a window at Tran Thi Le Huyen, 23, sitting in a wheelchair in her family home in Danang, Vietnam in this May 21, 2007. The young woman has been listed by the Vietnamese government as a victim of Agent Orange contamination. Her family once lived near the highly contaminated Danang Airbase and her father was a driver for the US-backed south Vietnamese government during the war. Her family receives a small stipend and her wheelchair from the government.



12. Ngyuyen Thi Thuy Lieu kisses and hugs her daughter Ngyuyen Thi Trang Ngan as she feeds her lunch on their family bed at their home in Danang, Vietnam, in this May 21, 2007. Ngyuyen Thi Thuy Lieu, who grew up next to the U.S. military base inside Denang airbase, has given birth to two children with physical and mental disabilities. More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.



13. A woman walks next to a highly contaminated pond around the grounds of the Danang airbase in Danang, Vietnam, int this May 21, 2007. More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.



14. Vietnamese high school children visit a "peace village" center at a hospital in the village of Thuy An, Vietnam which cares for physically and mentally disabled children suspected to have been harmed by exposure to dioxin in the chemical defoliant Agent Orange, in this May 15, 2007.



15. Physically and mentally disabled children sit in their room at a "peace village" center for people suspected to have been damaged by the dioxin found in the chemical defoliant Agent Orange and other illnesses, in the village of Thuy An, Vietnam, in this May 15, 2007.

Author: David Guttenfelder / AP Photo
Source: ABC NEWS: AGENT ORANGE'S HORRIFIC LEGACY

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