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Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 10:17
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Subject: Re: Nov 2: VA denies many
AO/AW/AP benefits
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 20:04:39 -0500
From: ttweed@wildrockies.org (Tony
Tweedale)
To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L <dioxin-l@essential.org>
Subject:
Nov 2: VA denies many AO/AW/AP benefits
tho I'm subsribed to all EPA's
toxics/pollution listservs of FR
publications, I don't get stuff like this
from VA. Saw it by chance.
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[Federal Register: November 2, 1999
(Volume 64, Number 211)] [Notices]
[Page 59232-59243]
>From the
Federal Register Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr02no99-101]
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DEPARTMENT
OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Diseases Not Associated With Exposure to Certain
Herbicide Agents
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION:
Notice.
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SUMMARY:
As required by law, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hereby gives
notice that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, under the authority granted by
the Agent Orange Act of 1991, has determined that a presumption of service
connection based on exposure to herbicides used in the Republic of Vietnam
during the Vietnam era is not warranted for the following conditions:
Hepatobiliary cancers, nasal/nasopharyngeal cancer, bone cancer, breast
cancer, female reproductive cancers, urinary bladder cancer, renal cancer,
testicular cancer, leukemia, abnormal sperm parameters and infertility,
motor/coordination dysfunction, chronic peripheral nervous system disorders,
metabolic and digestive disorders (other than diabetes mellitus), immune
system disorders, circulatory disorders, respiratory disorders (other than
certain respiratory cancers), skin cancer, cognitive and neuropsychiatric
effects, gastrointestinal tumors, brain tumors, and any other condition for
which the Secretary has not specifically determined a presumption of service
connection is
warranted.
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You
know Tony this covers just about all the Vietnam vets I know. They have never
done any synergistic testing to see what all the 14+ chemicals would do to
anyone. Then there were the contaminated vaccinations, and the Vaccination
Contraindication (the times you are not supposed to vaccinate like during
fungal infections which we all had.). They base everything on the Ranch Hand
guys which I don't know anyone who served in the bush that wouldn't have
traded places with them in a heartbeat. Several of my docs think the condition
they are seeing (at the present) is Leukemia so I'm off to the oncologist
today. But if you'd like to see what the VA says isn't Agent Orange or Vietnam
related take a look at my web site at the page listed
below.
http://www.kachina.net/~bphata/medprobs.htm
To your
health,
Bill in Sedona
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TOXINS USED IN
VIETNAM
Excerpt from:
ARIZONA VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION'S
PAMPHLET:
AVCS PAMPHLET 88-05, Oct. 19, 1988.
AGENT BLUE
AGENT
ORANGE
AGENT PINK AND PURPLE
AGENT WHITE
BINOCTAL
CHLORDANE
DAPSONE
DDT
DEET (Diethyl Toluamide)
EPA
LINDANE
MALATHION
UROX 22 AND BROMACIL
http://www.kachina.net/~bphata/Home.htm