Re: [TT 29/5 Pho'ng su+.: Cha^'t ddo^.c ma`u da cam - sau 20

[Tuan V Nguyen <t.nguyen@garvan.unsw.edu.au>]

At 04:51 PM 6/2/97 -0500, you wrote:
>HI ca'c ba'c ngu+o+`i My~ tre^n VNSA,
>    Co' le~ ca'c ba'c ne^n co' y' kie^'n vo+'i cha'nh phu? MY~ ve^` 
>vie^.c dde^? ma('t to+'i chuye^.n na`y la.i hi?. 
>
>Thanks
>Aiviet

Hello friends,


        I must say that I am quite moved after reading the 
story of Mr Lo+'p and the presumed effect of agent orange 
on his family's tragedy. This is, I believe, only one of 
many thousands or perhaps hundred of thousands UNTOLD 
stories about the deadly effects of agent orange in 
Vietnam. 

	It has been shown in numeral epidemiological studies 
that there is a causal linkage between agent orange and 
birth defect (which Mr Lo+'p had suffered enomously), 
cancer and a dozen of other medical conditions. If any of 
you are in doubt, just read the report of National Academy 
of Science (USA) on "Veterans and Agent Orange Update 
1996". In fact, the centre for Disease Control (CDC) have 
an on-going documentation of the effects of agent orange 
among the American Vietnam veterans. The Australian 
government also spent million of dollars to study the 
effects among their soldiers. While the American and 
Australian governments support such a research and 
documentation, the Vietnamese government appears to have 
modest concern for the research into its effects among the 
Vietnamese soldiers. Indeed, I found that most of the 
research on agent orange in VN were carried out by 
foreigners. 

	I believe that it is time to establish a central 
registry to systematically document the effects of agent 
orange (similar the one in CDC) among not just former 
soldiers, but also the general population which was exposed 
to the agent during the war. 

	When I visited VN in 1993, I talked to a number of 
people at the School of Medicine (HCMC) about this idea, 
and to my disappointment, they were polite to mention but 
were not interested. Perhaps, they had other urgent issues 
to attend. 

	Is there any doctor or epidemiologist or statistician 
in this list concerned about this isssue? How can we go 
about to set up such a registry? Which governmental body 
should we lobby? etc. I can certainly volunteer to give 
advice and campaign for funding from the Australian 
government.


	Tuan (Australia)


>Ba`I 2: So^' pha^.n cay nghie^.t cu?a mo^.t ngu+o+`i li'nh

>Anh la` bo^. ddo^.i tho+`i cho^'ng My~, vo+. la` "phu. nu+~ ba dda?m
>ddang", mu+o+`i la^`n sinh con la` mu+o+`i la^`n qua'i thai, mu+o+`i
>la^`n nga^'t xi?u, mu+o+`i la^`n la(.ng le~ mang con cho^n ca^'t mo^.t
>mi`nh vi` kho^ng ai da'm nhi`n. Que^ anh o+? tho^n Va?i, xa~ Ho`a
>Tie^'n, huye^.n Hu+ng Ha` (Tha'i Bi`nh). Ba^y gio+` anh dda~ mu` vi`
>thu+o+ng con, ngu+o+`i vo+. anh dda~ ho'a ddie^n vi` tie^'c con, tu?i
>pha^.n. 

....

>Ro+`i nha` anh, chie^`u sa^`m sa^.p mo^.t co+n do^ng phi'a tre^n dda^`u
>nhu+ng phi'a ta^y hoa`ng ho^n nhu+ ma'u u+'a. Ba~i tha ma ti't cuo^'i
>la`ng, no+i ddo' co' mu+o+`i na^'m mo^` be' ti' cho mu+o+`i sinh linh
>to^.i nghie^.p cu?a vo+. cho^`ng anh Lo+'p. Chuo^ng nha` tho+` xu+'
>dda.o vang trong chie^`u to^i nghe nhu+ tie^'ng chuo^ng nguye^.n ho^`n
>cho mu+o+`i ddu+'a be' chu+a mo^.t la^`n go.i bo^', go.i me.. Bo^' me.
>ca'c em dda^u co' to^.i ti`nh gi`. Cu~ng kho^ng pha?i la` so^' me^.nh.
>Ne^'u kho^ng co' nhu+~ng thu`ng cha^'t ddo^.c khai quang dda~ a(n va`o
>co+ the^? nhu+~ng ngu+o+`i li'nh ma^'y mu+o+i na(m tru+o+'c, thi` ha(?n
>se~ kho^ng co' nhu+~ng na^'m mo^` tre^n va` cuo^.c so^'ng cu?a ho. se~
>kho^ng nghie^.t nga~ nhu+ ba^y gio+`.