08-10-2018, 12:41 PM
2liveque: interesting history. When was your brother doing this? Was he using any other herbicides/pesticides? There were some pretty nasty ones available 20 - 30 - 40 years ago - that are off the market now. Did the other members of the crew smoke? Did he live in the plantation housing? I renovated one of that era - termite damage everywhere - got covered with paris green (an organic compound containing copper and arsenic which was used to kill the termite colonies) whenever I pulled termite eaten sections of the wall out. Did he ever do any carpentry? Copper-chrome-arsenate was used heavily to give wood termite resistance until a few years ago...
Easy to point fingers - but all too frequently the universe of exposures that we have all experienced makes it very hard to generate a convincing data set that shows that a particular chemical was responsible for whatever the illness de jour might be.
Easy to point fingers - but all too frequently the universe of exposures that we have all experienced makes it very hard to generate a convincing data set that shows that a particular chemical was responsible for whatever the illness de jour might be.