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Three Harvard Medical School specialists who recently investigated Philadelphia's mysterious Legionnaires' disease say they think either toxic compounds or an unknown infectious agent caused the disease...
...documented in a draft report prepared by another federal watchdog agency, the General Accounting Office, after visits by inspectors to eleven of EPA's 60 laboratories. The report says that more than half the 1,329 scientists, technicians and other employees in these labs had been exposed to toxic and other hazardous substances without the safeguard of satisfactory health-monitoring services, which are required by law. One example cited: six employees of the labs at Research Triangle Park, N.C., experienced nausea, headaches and sore throats after exposure to acid fumes last year, but none were given follow-up medical...
Williams, who has never suffered from lack of funding in this type of research, is working on what he calls a third generation pesticide--following the first two generations of arsenate of lead and DDT--that is unusual because it is non-toxic to mammals and is biodegradable...
Signs along the road up to the crater warn of toxic gases, projectiles and landslides. But over the years islanders have built their houses amid the rain forests on the mountain's flanks. As a retired clerical worker from Basse-Terre put it: "We did not fear it." When the volcano suddenly began spewing out a fine volcanic ash two weeks ago, officials decided it was time...
TCDD is so toxic, according to one scientist, that a single gram is capable of killing thousands of people. The gas can cause blistering, and damage to the liver, spleen, kidneys, respiratory tract and nervous system; it may also cause deformities in unborn children...