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After collecting specimens and data in South Vietnam in the fall of 1970, a five-man team, including Meselson, Baughman and John D. Constable, assistant clinical professor of Surgery, began to study various effects of the herbicide...
They found that dioxin is especially dangerous because of its stability and cumulative toxicity, Meselson said. "As a result of these properties, the poison may pass down the food chain until eventually a human could eat an animal with a high accumulated level of dioxin," he noted...
Dioxin has caused birth defects and death in animals, and Meselson said that there have been scattered reports in South Vietnam of fatal herbicide poisoning. In addition, the five scientists found that in some areas in South Vietnam, after herbicide spraying, the rate of still births doubled...
...evil genius could not devise a toxin with more evil properties," Meselson said...
...study should be completed in six weeks, after samples of South Vietnamese mothers' milk and the statistics on still births are reviewed, Meselson said. Afterwards, he added, he hopes to study the possible harmful effects of spraying 2, 4, 5-T on farmland in the United States...