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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by Donald on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:38PM (#21019180)
DEET is a good acetylcholinesterase inhibitor - certainly possible it has mild hallucinogenic effects.
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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by refurb on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:26PM (#21020370)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEET

DEET isn’t a cholinesterase inhibitor.

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by selectodude on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:04PM (#21020751)
Yes, but it’s commonly combined with carbamate which is.
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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by refurb on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:19PM (#21020861)
Carbamate is an insecticide. In what insect repellent products is it combined with DEET?

And in terms of cholinesterase inhibition, there was a 2009 paper that said it was. Digging into it, it was when applied in vitro at a concentration of 20uM, which you’d need to drink hundreds of milliliters to achieve.

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by CamperBob2 on Friday September 20, 2019 @01:38AM (#21023581)
Digging into it, it was when applied in vitro at a concentration of 20uM, which you’d need to drink hundreds of milliliters to achieve.

Which apparently is a thing that is done, going by the bizarre link in geomark's post above.

People are weird.

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