When they found my dear friend's neck tumor, the first thing the doctor asked was 'were you exposed to Agent Orange?'
Vietnam killed my friend and your stepdad. It doesn't matter where they were when their hearts stopped beating.
Study finds no evidence of health problems from burn pits
An Institute of Medicine study released Oct. 31 found no evidence between exposure to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan and long-term health problems.
A 14-member committee from the institute, a nonprofit health research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, could neither prove nor disprove that service members' exposure to burning trash piles in Iraq and Afghanistan could cause long-term health problems and recommended that more studies be done, a summary of the report said.
The study was done at the request of Veterans Affairs Department officials after some service members, veterans and Congress members expressed concerns about the safety of people who were in the vicinity of the burn pits, especially in the early days of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, when the contents of the pits were less regulated.
"The toxicology isn't there; the science isn't there," he said.
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Dis...-- An Institute,and long-term health problems.