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The scale of the payouts marks the US government s growing acknowledgement of the invisible toxic threats endured by combatants that were for decades largely ignored.
War-on-terror veterans suffer from twice the rates of infertility as the population at large. It has been linked to the exposure to toxic burn pits, stress, brain trauma and even the lead in bullets.
Veterans and their relatives want Republican senators to stop dragging their feet and back a bill to help those exposed to toxic smoke from U.S. military burn pits in Afghanistan and Iraq.