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[ChrisP]

Yahoo News (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/050425/481/rjv10104250324&e=1&ncid=1756)

Holy crap... this looks like a hoax, but it's Yahoo News and an AP photo. :eek:

[Oski2005]

Damn, poor kid. They say it's the effect of Agent Orange.

[rockHEAD]

Agent Orange Babies.... scary stuff...

[Isabel]

I knew they made funny pointy headed dolls that look like that... first time I've ever seen the real thing. :( I'll try and remember to show it to my class tomorrow morning. We talked about Agent Orange earlier...

[Svpernaut]

Man, that's just sad.

[Hippieloser]

Holy crap, and 30 years after the fact!

[mulletman]

poor kid:(

[Rocket River]

. . and the Eyes don't make it any better

Rocket River

[swilkins]

Poor kid.

He will have a large selection of hats.

[Saint Louis]

Well if it is due to agent orange then the U.S. government should pay to have the child flown to the U.S. for reconstructive surgery.

[rockets-#1]

That sucks. It looks like his eyes are about bulge right out.:(

[JuanValdez]

When I was in late junior high or early high school, I knew a Vietnamese kid with 6 toes on one foot (he had another foot too, with 5 toes on that one). He said it was because of Agent Orange.

[cagey veteran]

I'm surprised that it would still have that effect after so many years. I don't know much about Agent Orange and its effect though. Very unfortunate.

[bronxfan]

something isn't right with the story.... if agent orange hasn't been used in 30 years then i can't imagine this kids development was affected by it ( can you spell propoganda...)

i think he suffers from craniosynostosis where parts of the skull fuse too early resulting in abnormal shapes...

[KaiSeR SoZe]

Originally posted by bronxfan
something isn't right with the story.... if agent orange hasn't been used in 30 years then i can't imagine this kids development was affected by it ( can you spell propoganda...)

i think he suffers from craniosynostosis where parts of the skull fuse too early resulting in abnormal shapes...

I don't if the effects of Agent Orange or exactly how it works but I found this article from the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3798581.stm

it basically says that the effects are still common today

[Isabel]

I don't know a whole lot about Agent Orange (except that it was actually intended as a herbicide instead of a conventional chemical weapon), but if it is a mutagen, then it's easy to see how those exposed to it can be giving birth to children with defects. Mutagens alter your reproductive DNA and you might not know it at the time. Those people who were exposed to it may just now be having kids.

Apparently the dioxin is still around and may be in water supplies to this day. :( KaiSeR SoZe posted a link above with more pictures... including another one with the bulging eyes. Sad. :(

[PhiSlammaJamma]

blockheads everywhere believe he is "the one"

[ChrisP]

Originally posted by bronxfan
can you spell propoganda...

Can you?

Couldn't resist that. ;)