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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mao II who wrote (8813)	2/16/2003 9:04:13 AM
From: Mao II	Respond to of 25898

US CS gas in Vietnam is still virulent and affecting lives in that country: 55 students poisoned by Vietnam War leftovers HANOI - Fifty-five students between the ages of 11 and 14 have been poisoned over the past few days by chemicals left over from the Vietnam War, a local police source said on Wednesday. The students, who studied at the Chu Van An school in Dong Nai province, were hospitalised with respiratory infections, vomiting and diarrhoea. An inquiry has been launched by the local authorities, the source said. They had been taken to hospital on Sunday and Monday but there was no evidence any had died or were in danger of doing so, the source said. Local experts discovered the chemical, the identity of which was not yet known, buried in an old military zone close to the school. According to them it was CS gas abandoned by American troops and now used by local families to control ants and termites. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of various chemicals left over from the Vietnam War are often discovered in old combat zones in the centre of the country. Agence France Presse - December 14, 2000. perso.wanadoo.fr