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...Navy gunboat burned off foliage along the riverbank of the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam in 1967, recalls Robert Sutton, a ship's gunner, "I inhaled the fumes of the foliage that had been killed by Agent Orange." Before long, he says, he began suffering from diarrhea, vomiting and headaches, and in 1969 was given an honorable discharge. Back in West Babylon, N.Y., the veteran's health deteriorated rapidly; today the unemployed steam fitter's ailments include brain lesions and degenerative joint disease...
...help local authorities cope with an outbreak of intestinal disease caused by Salmonella newport. Groping for a lead, Holmberg visited several of the victims in their homes. "I stuck my head in their refrigerators. I asked things you would never ask your friends, as nicely as possible, about diarrhea, bowel habits, food preparation, how often they washed their hands, drug use." Working with local health authorities, Holmberg eventually traced the probable cause of the disease to a herd of cows in a muddy field in South Dakota...
Dodge said the disease is a protozoan flagellate disease that causes diarrhea. Were a human to drink from a stream that one of the infected beavers had contaminated, the human could possibly become infected, Dodge said...
...Fraser's pitch ran into conflicting arguments from an unlikely source--Chrysler Chairman Lee A. lacocca. During the Chrysler UAW negotiations, the former Ford executive apparently developed what one local president called "terminal diarrhea of the month," and boasted that rising sales and the recent sale of Chrysler defense factories had left the corporation rolling in the dough. Iacocca's claims may have stoked investor faith in Chrysler stock, but they in turn raised if the company was in such great shape--they weren't reaping the economic benefits rather than being asked to sacrifice even more...
...York. "There is a chemical in beans that reduces the speed of starch digestion. If you don't digest the starch, then it goes down into your colon, where bacteria ferment and make gas out of it. That gas can give you nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea, as well as making you socially unacceptable...