Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggests

Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by skim_milk on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:41PM (#21019213)

When my father was a child, he would bike behind the trucks that sprayed DDT all over the neighborhood because the DDT mist kept him cool. I hope you'll be fine, because people have done much worse!

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by t1lthesky on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:43PM (#21020555)

Ha I remember doing the same thing when I was ~6 years old in South Korea. There would be these trucks that went around spraying mosquito killing fog in the apartment complexes and all the little kids from the neighborhood would run behind them.

Well now I'm 30 and so far things seem to be ok! Fingers crossed

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by therein on Thursday September 19, 2019 @07:41PM (#21021848)

Yup, this has been my experience growing up outside of the US.

Watching this video made me facepalm really hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2NmuQW8cjE

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by emerongi on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:57AM (#21024572)

The description on that video is hilarious.

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by o-__-o on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:09AM (#21025728)

Meanwhile I’m out walking my dog and one of these trucks turns the corner. I immediately turn and run, it’s always futile.. the truck passes me and I’m left standing there holding my shirt over my face. Doesn’t matter; inhaled DEET.

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by Jenda_ on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:13PM (#21032830)

FYI DDT and DEET are completely different chemicals, one is an insecticide, the other is a repellent. Some people in this thread seem to confuse them. I don't think they would spray DEET at scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEET

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by King-Aaron on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:30PM (#21023115)

My grandmother talked about playing in piles of fresh asbestos when she was a child, because it was soft and fun to jump in.

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by christophilus on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:55PM (#21020671)

Yep. We did this in the deep south when I was growing up. Good times.

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by gbmor on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:03PM (#21021173)

Same here, in rural south Louisiana in the 90s. Whelp, uh, I think I'm fine ...

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by WalterBright on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:18PM (#21021314)

I drank lots of Coca-cola for decades, thinking it's only sugar, what could go wrong?

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by harry8 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @10:21PM (#21022752)

Please, what is your additional concern here?

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by rlonn on Saturday September 21, 2019 @04:46AM (#21034225)

What is yours?

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by GhettoMaestro on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:13PM (#21020249)

Omg I hope your dad is alright?

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Re:Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cau... by joecool1029 on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:03AM (#21023686)

As scary sounding as the anecdote was, DDT is known for relatively low human (and mammal) toxicity. They did absolutely insane human studies with it in the 1950's, and dosages of up to 380mg/kg were tolerable. There was also no evidence that it produced cancer at commonly exposed dosages: http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/carbaryl-dicro... < some more info here.

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