Word: toxication
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Michigan residents has been exposed to low levels of polybrominated biphenyol (PBB) for the past four years. A more toxic relative of the federally-banned chemical PCB, PBB entered the Michigan food chain through state-distributed feed grain. Thousands of cattle and 1.5 million chickens have been killed or maimed by the disease. Others have been quarantined, dying slowly of PBB-related diseases. But many animals were sold before the state realized the danger. Over 10,000 people in the state, mostly farmers, now have traces of PBB in their bodies that exceed the danger level for cattle...
Wick decided to "choke the cell" with an overdose of L-dopa--taking what he called "sort of an educated guess," Wick said he believed L-dopa was likely to act only on the nerve and skin pigment cells, and thought it was probably non-toxic to other cells in the body...
Smith sold his patent rights to Baxter Travenol Laboratories of Deerfield, Ill., which extracted from papain another enzyme, chymopapain, that was more potent and less toxic. Baxter Travenol trade-named its product Disease and obtained U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in 1963 for its use as an investigational new drug for humans. In twelve years doctors treated some 15,000 patients, and reported that symptoms were relieved in most cases. Meanwhile, Baxter Travenol had applied to the FDA for approval of Disease as a prescription item for any licensed physician...
...that the numbers represent, in fact, a particular latitude and longitude--Devil's Tower, Wyoming no less. the U.S. government then assumes this will be the site for our first inter-galactic rendezvous. The area is sealed off, and the government disseminates the false report that a train carrying toxic gases had derailed and that, consequently, the area must be evacuated...
...fell in the river, and the electrician's wife has loaded the kids in the station wagon and gone to stay with her sister. In their mutual despair, the mother and the electrician find each other. Somehow, they know that the government is pulling everybody's leg about the toxic gases, and so they head off to Wyoming...