Word: toxication
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...difference had no adverse effect on their first child, an Rh-positive boy born in a Louisville hospital two years ago. But their second, born last year, suffered from a condition called erythroblastosis fetalis, which destroyed his red blood cells, leaving him severely anemic with an accumulation of toxic substances in his tiny body. Soon after birth, he died...
...demands that the new equipment recently installed and the highly dangerous chemicals involved warrant at least two men on the post during the same shift. One worker narrowly escaped death from exposure to cholorine, flourine and other toxic gases in the chemical chamber last month...
...these laboring children are Chicanes and Mexicans. Many receive hardly any education at all as they follow their parents from one harvest to the next. They are in the fields by sunup seven days a week, often in 100°-plus heat, frequently near dangerous farm machinery and toxic pesticides...
...Harvard biochemists have found that a herbicide used by American forces in Indochina included a highly toxic contaminant which could seriously threaten human life...
Chris Logan's death is due to the toxic effects of a new chemical being tested in the area by the Army; Dan, also infected, probably will not live out the week. He learns all this, after days of bureaucratic soothing and sedation, when he sees Chris' clothes being carried out of the hospital in a clear plastic bag. Logan breaks out, vowing vengeance on the officials and the doctors who have lied to him. He blows up the plant where the chemical was manufactured, then, although slowed by the poison, heads for the Army base to take...