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Date Posted: Sun, Mar 03 2019, 12:42:55 PST
Author: JAIME A. LLERAS - BINH THUY '70
Author Host/IP: 226.216-223-197-net.sccoast.net / 216.223.197.226
Subject: AGENT ORANGE EXPOSURE FAIRNESS ACT

HR-566 & S-332
AGENT ORANGE EXPOSURE FAIRNESS ACT

Three illnesses believed to be caused by contact with Agent Orange, under VA rating regulations, must be at least 10% disabling within 1 year of contact of herbicides.

1. Chloracne - skin condition, skin rash, looks like acne, appears anywhere on the body anytime, lesions often found behind the years, armpits, groin region are itchy and get red hot.
2. Peripheral Neuropathy - illness of the nervous system that causes numbness, tingling of hands, feet and legs, weakness of muscles, loss of coordination and loss of reflexes.
3. Porphyria Cutanea Tarda - a rare illness that can make your liver stop working correctly, can cause your skin to thin, blister & scar, changes in pigmentation when in the sun and excessive hair growth.

Congress of the United States, the national institutes of Health and the President of the United States to amend the 38 CFR, 3.309 and USC116 to eliminate onset dates for the presumptive diseases. Certain limitations were placed on the aforementioned diseases, establishing unreasonable and punitive onset dates resulting in loss of earned disability compensation. Therefore we ask our elected and appointed officials to remedy this wrong and award earned benefits through the Department of Veteran Affairs.

How could we request treatment when we didn't ever hear about Agent Orange until after 1978, when most of us had been discharged by then? How can the Government put an end date on an illness?

Call or contact your house & senate reps to ask them to co-sponsor this bill and bring justice to our veterans! Go to congress.gov type in S332 &/or HR-566 to see the bill.

Jaime A. Lleras, VSPA Service Officer
Chiefjal9@mail.com 301-848-3399

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