diabetes Current Agent Orange Presumptive List,

[Commander Bob]

VA's Agent Orange website... www.VA.gov/AgentOrange...

Here is the current Agent Orange presumptive list, November, 2008, if you don't want to wait for the download at the VA website.

Health Conditions Presumptively Recognized to Date

The information contained in this article updates earlier issues of this newsletter. We are providing it again because of the high level of interest and because we know that some readers are seeing it for the first time. For more information, see www.VA.gov/AgentOrange.

The following health conditions are presumptively recognized for service connection for Vietnam veterans, based on exposure to herbicides and related materials during the Vietnam War. Vietnam veterans with one or more of these conditions do not have to show that their illness(es) is (are) related to their military service to get disability compensation. VA presumes that their condition is service-connected.

Conditions Recognized in Veterans:

1.

Chloracne (must occur within 1 year of exposure to Agent Orange)

2.

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

3.

Soft tissue sarcoma (other than osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma, or mesothelioma)

4.

Hodgkin’s disease

5.

Porphyria cutanea tarda (must occur within 1 year of exposure)

6.

Multiple myeloma

7.

Respiratory cancers, including cancers of the lung, larynx, trachea, and bronchus

8.

Prostate cancer

9.

Acute and subacute transient peripheral neuropathy (must appear within 1 year of exposure and resolve within 2 years of date of onset)

10.

Type 2 diabetes

11.

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Edited December 22, 2008 by Commander Bob 92-93

[Berta]

In November 2008 VA added Amyloidosis to the AO presumptives.

AL is not ALS which also was added as a chronic service connectable disability in all veterans but not caused by Agent Orange-

The VA web site has the updated presumptives as soon as they change and get added to it