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Almost out of the blue, toxic shock syndrome appeared in the U.S. in the late 1970s, spreading fear among women and baffling scientists. The disease, which reached its peak in 1980, when 890 cases were reported, occurred primarily in menstruating women, though men and children could also be affected. Toxic shock could strike with appalling speed, progressing in a matter of hours from fever and dizziness to a strange, sunburn-like rash and a drop in blood pressure so severe that the victim might go into shock. For about 4% of patients, TSS proved fatal. Scientists quickly linked the disease...
...magnesium link may help explain why toxic shock typically occurs on the fourth day of a woman's period, when the menstrual flow has diminished. During the previous days, the volume of fluid is greater, and, Kass believes, there is probably enough unabsorbed magnesium present to keep toxin production in check...
...Washington next month, two House Foreign Affairs subcommittees will hold joint hearings on the global spread of plutonium, the highly toxic atomic explosive. An estimated 55 tons of separated plutonium exists in the West, a stockpile that is growing by five to six tons a year. Among the issues likely to be discussed by legislators at the hearings is the potential that plutonium traffic offers to nuclear terrorism...
...suggests that such a diet may help relieve symptoms of arthritis and perhaps other inflammatory diseases. However, says Dr. K. Frank Austen of Harvard, it is too early to make any recommendations, and fish-oil experts sound a special note of caution on cod-liver oil, which can be toxic in high doses...
BABETTE AND JACK GLADNEY love life, they really do. Everyday they think about living forever. But what if one of them should die before the other? That would be unendurable. So they devise a plan--sort of a mutual assured destruction--and it might have worked until an "airborne toxic event" forced them to evacuate their small college town with their family, tearing Jack away from his cherished position as chairman of the "Department of Hitler Studies" at the local university...