Dioxins, rather than Agent Orange itself, have long-term cancer effects and for causing genetic damage leading to serious birth deformities.

Clubfoot is the most common musculoskeletal birth deformity, affecting 200,000 newborn children each year, 80% in developing countries.

Because of economic difficulties, Russian doctors don't always have the equipment and installations to perform the operation needed to correct his birth deformity.

The sign can be caused by conditions including traumatic brain injury,stroke, hematoma, or birth deformity that leads to a raise intracranial pressure.

Vietnam veterans exposed to it believe Agent Orange caused numerous illnesses and birth deformities.

"Was it a birth deformity?"

Studies have found short-term symptoms to include prenatal complications, such as premature delivery and birth deformities, along with strokes and brain hemorrhages prior to birth.

It was mainly prescribed to pregnant women in the 1950s and 1960s, until it was found to be a teratogen (that is: birth deformity causing substance).

The exposure can last just a few days and still cause birth deformities.

"The Sunday Times" proposed to publish an article about the history of the manufacture and marketing of Thalidomide, a pregnancy drug which caused birth deformities.