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New Agent Orange Health Risks

July 25, 2009 by Cherie Burbach  
Filed under Diseases & Conditions

New Agent Orange Health Risks

The list of health risks Agent Orange may cause has potentially added two more: heart disease and Parkinson’s. The findings are early and more tests are needed to definitively say there is a link. It’s difficult to say exactly what types of problems agent orange caused, because those exposed to the toxin have reacted differently. (Different bodies, different reactions.)

Other diseases linked to Agent Orange include leukemia, prostate cancer, Type 2 diabetes, and birth defects in the children of veterans who were exposed to the toxin. About 20 million gallons of Agent Orange were used between …read more

Has Adoption Become “Child Trafficking?”

February 13, 2008 by Marcie  
Filed under Parenting

Has Adoption Become “Child Trafficking?”

From A Birth Project:
According to a BBC report, a group of ‘charity workers’ located in Chad were arrested on the tarmark of the airport with an airplane full of about 103 children. The group denies they planned to sell the children for adoption, instead claiming they were sending them to ‘host families’ at a nice price of 2,400 euros (US$3,450) each. The group also claimed the children were from Darfur, Sudan and they were rescuing them from their ‘war torn lives’. It turns out many of the children were from Chad and not without families.
Apparently Guatemala is not the only …read more


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