This site is an overview of health concerns during both during the Vietnam and Korea War and after. You will find information about Chemicals and Environmental /Health effects, Feild Hospitals, Public Health Concerns, and Veteran Affairs. Chemicals and Environmental/ Health effects discusses the usage of Agent Orange and DDT in the wars. Field Hospitals discusses the M.A.S.H units in the Korean War and M.U.S.T units in the Vietnam war and the improvements they brought to the medical field. Public Health Concerns talks about the common diseases that spread and killed millions, as well as the treatments, were developed. Finally, in Veteran Affairs focuses on the drugs used among soldiers during the war and whether or not it affected their performance and if they had an addiction after the war.

TIMELINE

1940’s- military starts using DDT

1945- M.A.S.H units created

1950- Beginning of Korena War

1953- Korean war ends

1955- Vietnam War Begins

1955- M.U.S.T units created and deployed

1962- Military begins using Agent Orange

1964- Five navy nurses awarded purple heart

1970- WAC presence in Vietnam Numbered some 20 officers and 130 enlisted women

1971- Military stops using agent Orange

1971- Operation Golden Flow was mandated

1972- Usage of DDT ends; the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is passed

1975- Vietnam War ends

1989- National Health Insurance (NHI) was extended to the whole nation

1991- Agent Orange Act of 1991 issued

2004-Dengue fever kills 33, infects more than 16,650

2007- Vietnam deals with various diseases

2009- Influenza identified in the U.S.

2010- Agent Orange Act updated