Lawmakers join Vietnam vets in call for action on parasite disease
Local members of Congress are pressing for answers about liver fluke, a river parasite that infected soldiers in Vietnam
yesterday at 1:40 pm
Martin C. Evans
Newsday
Local members of Congress are pressing for answers about liver fluke, a river parasite that infected untold numbers of soldiers in Vietnam a half century ago, and which may be killing some of those veterans now.
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) on Wednesday asked the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to hold a hearing “on the links between our veterans’ military service, liver fluke infection and bile-duct cancer.â€
“The ties between a veteran’s service and contracting the disease appear to be more than coincidental,†Suozzi wrote.
https://www.military1.com/veterans/article/1885990014-lawmakers-join-vietnam-vets-in-call-for-action-on-parasite-disease/
