‘The final Agent Orange raid in Vietnam took place in 1970;... areas have begun to bloom again. But 19 years after the war’s end, it seems plain that Agent Orange is killing and maiming human beings, something it never intended to do. The apparent toxic fall out from those clouds... is a crop of human miseries including cancers, miscarriages and birth defects—that may persist for decades.” The offensive substance referred to in the above quotation is
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(a)DDT used as insecticide
(b)a complex mixture of herbicides and weedicides used to increase agricultural output in the then South Vietnam under the US aid programme
(c)a complex mixture of DDT and other insecticides used as aerial sprays for protection against malaria and other tropical diseases
(d)dioxin used as defoliants
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