Word: toxin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those shown to be sensitive to the plant, scientists at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland have developed a cream that can be applied daily and that prevents the toxin from reaching the skin. To shield fire fighters from the plant's toxic smoke, the researchers are also developing a specially treated material that can be fashioned into protective clothing and masks...
Researchers speculate the woman's reaction was caused by a natural toxin called atropine. Harmless traces of the substance had gotten into some packages of the tea in a still unknown way. At first Celestial's founder and chairman, Mo Siegel, 34, talked vaguely of "supply problems," but last week he gave a detailed explanation of the incident. Said one investment banker: "A lot of people would not have said anything. His decision was very ethical...
...agent of war, that it is bee feces. The army's view, the last time they enunciated a view, was that the yellow rain does contain pollen. They say it's because the Communists collect pollen that has been gathered by insects previously, and face it with toxin. What we think we have done is to rule out that hypothesis and to produce convincing evidence that what this stuff is, is the dropping of insects. The State Department has made a colossal error...
...best explanation, Douyon believed, was that Narcisse had been poisoned in such a way that his vital signs could not be detected. The psychiatrist obtained a sample of a coma-inducing toxin from a bocor. The poison is apparently used to punish individuals who have transgressed the will of their community or family. Narcisse, for example, said that he had been "killed" by his brothers for refusing to go along with their plan to sell the family land. Ti-Femme, a female zombie also under study by Douyon, had been poisoned for refusing to marry the man her family...
...chemical warfare riddle, among them persistent refugee reports of yellow rain, and illness and death associated with yellow rain: the discovery of trichothecene mycotoxins in alleged samples of yellow rain, as well as blood and urine, and a Soviet gas mask found in Afghanistan containing the illegal toxin. Nevertheless, Meselson sums up, "Whatever the source of these toxins, which we weren't able to explain, at least these spots that people are picking up are probably the excrement of bees...