The Nation - News from July 30, 1985
No definitive link can be found between exposure to Agent Orange and cancer or birth defects, Iowa health officials said after studying 10,848 Iowans who had served in Southeast Asia, including 4,238 directly exposed to the chemical defoliant. The survey found 120 cases of cancer among the veterans and their families; and, out of total births of 19,698, it found 2,331 babies born prematurely or with birth defects, 1,155 miscarriages and 191 stillbirths. However, it said those rates differ little from rates among the general population.
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