Vietnam: Battle to heal wounds of AO continues, say U.S. experts.

Section: General News - More than 30 years after the bullets stopped flying in Vietnam, a battle rages to help people still suffering from the effects of Agent Orange , U.S. experts said at a discussion held in North Carolina state on Feb 16.

During a panel discussion at the University of North Carolina , Charles Bailey, Director of Ford Foundation's Special Initiative on Agent Orange/Dioxin, said that Agent Orange was an herbicide, later discovered to be contaminated with the toxic nerve gas dioxin, that the U.S. military sprayed on the jungles of Vietnam to hamper guerrilla operations. He added: "If you use herbicides to kill the trees and shrubs, it exposes the tropical …