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Chemicals Within Us
OCTOBER 2006
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Heartbreak of War
Photograph by Peter Essick
A young girl lies helpless in a Ho Chi Minh City facility for disabled children, many thought to be victims of the dioxin-containing defoliant Agent Orange, with which the U.S. sprayed large areas of Vietnam. She was diagnosed with Fraser syndrome, a genetic disorder marked by deformities including fused eyelids and digits. It can't be definitely linked to dioxin, but the Vietnamese are convinced.
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