Vietnamese scientists have found that genes of some local people affected by Agent Orange, used by the U.S.in the Vietnam War, have been altered.A two-day international symposium entitled "What Vietnamese Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims Hope For," Le Ke Son, office manager of Vietnam's National Steering Committee for Overcoming Aftermaths of Wartime Toxic Substances, said the gene alteration has caused serious diseases and congenital malformations among children or grandchildren of people exposed to the defoliants.
The symposium's minutes will be sent to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which will hear Vietnamese victims' case against American chemical producers next month.
