It was the early 1960s when Barbara Munson left her job to join her husband, an Army reservist, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. While there, she witnessed a tragedy. In order to eliminate weeds growing along the road (and reduce scorpion habitats), trucks were used to spray herbicides. Two young children from a family attached to . her husband's unit were caught in the spray. A year and a half later, one of these children was dead from cancer. A civilian doctor attributed it to the exposure of the child to herbicides. It is likely this spray included 2,4-D or 2,4,5-T, both of which were frequently contaminated with dioxin (a known carcinogen) during the 1960s and 1970s.
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