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Bernie Sanders: “[VA has] just restarted a long term study of Vietnam veterans and Agent Orange. It is a study that continued up until…”

On the recordSeptember 22, 2010
[VA has] just restarted a long term study of Vietnam veterans and Agent Orange. It is a study that continued up until about 2000, and then for lack of emphasis, it lost priority. [VA has] just restarted [its] effort to begin that study again. It is looking at the long term effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Senator Sanders discusses the resumption of a study on Agent Orange effects.

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