Word: toxication
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...particularly bitter battle in the war of words between Moscow and Washington centers on American charges that Soviet-backed forces in Southeast Asia have been using highly toxic biochemical weapons. Speaking in Berlin last week, Secretary Haig charged that "potent mycotoxins," superpoisons derived from grain molds and known to be produced by the Soviets, were found in the region. Experts at the State Department said that the toxins were isolated on a leaf from Cambodia, where the Soviet-backed government is fighting Khmer insurgents...
...explained exactly how it happened, but a tank of toxic chlorine gas emptied itself into the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB) Monday morning, sending 34 people to the hospital...
Miracle drugs are even more overworked in Third World countries, because they are often sold over the counter, with out a prescription, even though antibiotics can have toxic side effects. U.S. physicians, for instance, know that Chloramphenicol should be prescribed only for life-threatening infections, since it can cause a breakdown in red blood cells. Physicians in Latin America, however, have been urged by manufacturers to use the drug for such minor ailments as tonsillitis and whooping cough...
After a period of apocalyptic rhetoric, Californians generally took the spraying in stride. Residents of the infested areas were bombarded with information on the safety of the chemical, which according to state lexicologists is only one twenty-fifth as toxic as the pesticide used in flea collars. Brown's fears notwithstanding, state officials said it was safer to spray from the air than the ground. Reason: the Malathion is mixed with molasses, sugar and yeast and falls in coffee-graint-size droplets that cannot be easily inhaled. B.T. Collins, 40, director of the California Conservation Corps, gave the most...
...paraquat to eradicate marijuana crops remains a top priority of the DEA, even though the public is less concerned about pot than it is about hard drugs. The spraying in Mexico became a cause celebre after traces of the toxic chemical were found in pot smuggled into the U.S. When smoked in heavy doses, the tainted weed caused vomiting, hemorrhaging and, in a few cases, irreversible lung damage. Republican Senator Charles Percy's 1978 amendment to the Foreign Assistance Authorization Act prohibited the U.S. from providing money or materials to foreign countries for paraquat spraying. House and Senate committees...