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Another New Problem: Vietnam Disease

By VVAW

Think that just because you don't have a collection of Agent Orange symptoms you made it out of Vietnam with your health intact? Well, think again. Medical researchers have now come up with melioidosis, a chronic Southeast Asian disease with symptoms that don't appear for a decade or longer after exposure. As many as 250,000 Vietnam vets may be carrying the germ of this disease which has been diagnosed in autopsies.

When discovered in time t can be treated with antibiotics. But the symptoms can be mistaken for pneumonia, arthritis or heart ailments, and the disease is then improperly treated. Untreated, it can attack internal organs through internal abscesses of lesions.