US cancels Agent Orange study in Vietnam

US cancels Agent Orange study in Vietnam

19:00 16 March 2005
Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition
Jonathan Walter

Is Agent Orange responsible for deformities in the children and grandchildren of people exposed to it during the Vietnam war? Vietnam claims the herbicide, used by the US to reduce forest cover, is to blame. But the US has never accepted this. The chances of the issue ever being resolved receded last month when the US cancelled a multimillion-dollar research project.