Attention "In Country Vietnam Veterans"
The regulation follows Shinseki’s October 2009 decision to add the three illnesses to the current list of diseases for which service connection for Vietnam Veterans is presumed. The illnesses are B cell leukemias, such as hairy cell leukemia; Parkinson’s disease; and ischemic heart disease. Other illnesses previously recognized under VA’s “presumption” rule as being caused by exposure to herbicides during the Vietnam War are: · AL Amyloidosis, · Acute and Subacute Transient Peripheral Neuropathy, · Chloracne or other Acneform Disease consistent with Chloracne, · Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, (now being expanded) · Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2), · Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, · Porphyria Cutanea Tarda, · Prostate Cancer, · Respiratory Cancers (Cancer of the lung, bronchus, larynx, or trachea), and · Soft Tissue Sarcoma (other than Osteosarcoma, Chondrosarcoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma, or Mesohelioma).40 http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/ USMC C 1/4 Grunt 67-68
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