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EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, ALL MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WERE STATIONED IN THAILAND ARE
PRESUMED TO HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO
AGENT ORANGE. |
THE FOLLOWING LIST ARE DISEASES CAUSED BY AGENT ORANGE EXPOSURE:
AL Amyloidosis
Chronic B-cell Leukemias
Chloracne
Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
Hodgkin’s Disease
Hypothyroidism
Ischemic Heart Disease
Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS)
Multiple Myeloma
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Parkinson’s Disease and Parkinsonism
Peripheral Neuropathy, Early Onset
Porphyria Cutanea Tarda
Prostate Cancer
Respiratory Cancers
Some Soft Tissue Sarcomas
If your disease isn’t on the list of presumptive conditions according to the PACT Act,
the presumption that you were exposed to herbicides still applies,
but you’ll need to prove that the health problems were caused by exposure to Agent Orange
or that they started or were aggravated by the military service in Thailand.
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