Ft. Detrick linked to Agent Orange testing

Ft. Detrick linked to Agent Orange testing

The Department of Defense has evidence that Fort Detrick worked to develop Agent Orange -- a defoliant sprayed on forests to destroy vegetation during the Vietnam War -- beginning in the 1950s.

The poison reportedly was sprayed on grass around Fort Ritchie, Md. and other locations.

The information comes as Frederick County residents express increasing concern that experiments at Fort Detrick may have raised their risk of cancer. After the Vietnam War, Agent Orange was linked to cancer and birth defects in Vietnamese and Americans who served in the war.