[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, HEALTH: Queensland, Australia Agent Orange tests

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cancer deaths claim to be probed

The Australian
May 18, 2008

CONCERNS that cancer deaths are higher in a north Queensland town where 
the army tested chemical weapons at the start of the Vietnam War will be 
investigated by the State Government, Premier Anna Bligh says.

Australian military scientists sprayed the toxic defoliant Agent Orange 
on rainforest in the water catchment area of Innisfail in 1966, Fairfax 
reported today.

The sprayed site, where jungle has never regrown, lies on a ridge about 
100m above the Johnstone River, which supplies water for the town in the 
state's far north.

Figures from the Queensland Health Department show 76 people died from 
cancer in the town of almost 12,000 in 2005, 10 times the state's 
average and four times the national average.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23717580-12377,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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