Reply #7: common birth defect from 1940s [View All]

[Margaret Diann]

Brain tumors, leukemia, tumors of various kinds ... and things such as AVMs should be suspect for the baby boomers & children of all VETs from war periods: Vietnam, Korea, Gulf war vets, today's troops should prove out the same. AND civilians who have CFS, CFIDS, FM issues. (Most noticeably for those who paint a lot, clean a lot, or worked in various manufacturing)

The lines are getting more and more blurred as to how military are different than civilian health ... especially with the 'gulf war syndrome' vets. They are no more harmed than the general population. Except for ALS & these vets have NO Presumptive list for auto approval of health damage

I looked up various health issues and do believe that except for the couple of things Dioxin (Agent Orange does) ... the rest of the list of what happened to the Vietam vet is the same for WWII vets and others:

Soft tissue sarcomas ... all of them

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Hodgkin's disease

Porphyria cutanea tarda

Respiratory cancers (lung, larynx, trachea)

Prostate cancer

Multiple myeloma

Hepatobiliary cancers

Nasal/nasopharyngeal cancer

Bone cancer

Female reproductive cancers (breast, cervical, uterine, ovarian)

Renal cancer

Testicular cancer

Leukemia

Spontaneous abortion

Birth defects

Neonatal/infant death and stillbirths

Low birthweight

Childhood cancer in offspring

Abnormal sperm parameters and infertility

Cognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders

Motor/coordination dysfunction

Peripheral nervous system disorders

Metabolic and digestive disorders (diabetes, changes in liver enzymes, lipid abnormalities, ulcers)

Immune system disorders (immune modulation and autoimmunity) ></SCRIPT>

Circulatory disorders

Respiratory disorders

Skin cancer

Gastrointestinal tumors (stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer)

Bladder cancer

Brain tumors

The Chemical exposure that would do ALL of these things was the other chemical in the mix:
Ethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether or modern name since its widespread use 1930s on is 2-butoxyethanol. It causes autoimmune hemolytic anemia that is hard to find ... but findable.

It causes lots and lots of birth defects & people are easily exposed today.