Word: mycotoxin
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...years ago, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig publicly accused the Soviet Union of conducting chemical warfare by proxy in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia. According to the State Department, the Soviet Union was manufacturing substances with the highly toxic chemical tricothecene mycotoxin and selling it to its allies for use against "resistance fighters" in those areas of the world. In addition, the U.S. government has reports from members of the Hmong tribe in Laos who claim to have seen this chemical dropped in the form of "yellow rain" from airplanes. If these charges are correct, the Soviet Union would...
Meselson has long said that the evidence is suspect that the Soviets are spraying "yellow rain"--particularly the prohibited chemical trichothecene mycotoxin. And now, he has an alternative theory to what's going on. At the end of May, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Detroit, he and a few other scientists dropped the widely publicized' "be" bombshell. Essentially, Meselson and his colleagues are arguing that the spots on leaves and rocks cited by the government as evidence of yellow rain may well be nothing more than bee excrement. Samples...
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