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INDEPTH: AGENT ORANGE
Agent Purple and Agent Orange
CBC News Online | Updated June 24, 2005
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/agentorange/index.html
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Well, thats good they are making some progress, but it must seem very slow to the victims, dying of their ailments.
I wonder if it would be more fair, and less costly overall to society if everybody with this "set of symptoms" [that would indicate exposure to these types of neurotoxins] should just be given compensation, like a disability income [only if they are symptomatic of course].
Symptoms like bodily twitching, having painfull muscles, mental problems of memory and depression, fatigue [different that being sleepy], and various other neurological symptoms is not a nice way to have to live. Its just nuts to say that only those who can trace their symptoms back to an event "not of their own making" like working a job where you got exposed should get compensation.
I worked in a chemical fertilizer/herbicide and pesticide applicator business when I was 20, I have had health problems from about 4 years after that - its really tough to make that connection but I was exposed to the things others are being compensated for. I feel left out, but not too bitter!
Karlin