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Agent Orange may not after all be causing leukaemia in children of soldiers exposed to the defoliant in the Vietnam War. Last year, the US Institute of Medicine found 鈥渓imited or suggestive鈥� evidence of abnormally high leukaemia rates in these children (New 杏吧原创, 28 April 2001, p 5). But a new analysis has found that an Australian study was wrong to report a significantly higher leukaemia rate among children of Australian soldiers. Recent studies from Germany and Norway show no link with pesticide exposure, says an Institute committee