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E-mail: enns_kyle@hotmail.com Link Diabetes Strongly Associated With Vietnam Exposure to Pesticide U.S. Air Force planes spray the defoliant chemical over dense vegetation in South Vietnam in this 1966 photo. Dioxin is the component of linked to many health ef ....

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.... The result is based on 1997 physical examinations of 1,000 Air Force veterans who were exposed to during the nine years that it was used as a defoliant and crop killer in Vietnam. Joel Michalek, the lead investigator in the study, told a Pentagon news conference that because studies have not yet explained a biological relation between dioxin and diabetes, the Air Force cannot say conclusively that wartime exposure to is a cause of diabetes. Still, he said, the latest results provide “the strongest evidence to date” that herbicide exposure is associated with diabetes. He said the Air Force knew as far back as 1991 of a statistical link between ....