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Agent Orange The VA is expected in May to have three additional conditions - Parkinson’s disease, ischemic heart disease and B-cell leukemias - have been added to the list of illnesses presumed to have been caused by exposure to Agent Orange. The VA had already ruled the following conditions were “presumptive” regarding exposure to Agent Orange:Acute and Subacute Transient Peripheral Neuropathy; Chloracne; Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia; Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2); Hodgkin’s Disease; Multiple Myeloma; Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma; Porphyria Cutanea Tarda; Prostate Cancer; Respiratory Cancers, and Soft Tissue Sarcoma (other than Osteosarcoma, Chondro-sarcoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma, or Mesothelioma).
This means that veterans who suffer from one of these diseases are entitled to service-connected disability compensation from the VA as long as they stepped foot on land in Vietnam during active duty at any time between January 9, 1962 and May 7, 1975.
It does not matter when the condition or disease first appeared. The VA will apparently accept letters from family physicians supporting claims for the new Agent Orange related conditions.
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