Silent summer.(environmental incidents linked to malathion)

From: Discover | Date: July 1, 2000| Author: SANTORO, GENE | Copyright information

THIS SUMMER, MANY MORE AMERICANS MAY HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN GETTING EXPOSED TO WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS OR GETTING SPRAYED WITH A MILD NEUROTOXIN. MAYBE THEY SHOULD JUST STAY INDOORS.

WE DIDN'T REALLY BELIEVE THE STORIES UNTIL WE WENT OUT ourselves," Bart Mansi says. "That's when it really hit us." Last fall, he and other lobstermen along the Connecticut shore kept hearing about a great lobster die-off 30 miles to the west--one that began around the time that New York City...

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