CHEM 181 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Paraquat, Nocebo, Pesticide

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: Mitchell Huot

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They were so scared of being sprayed by pesticides that they actually developed. Story of 3 guys playing golf physical symptoms, but it turns out they were being sprayed by water symptoms. Nocebo effect: believing something will do you harm & getting physical. Acute : people get sick very soon after the exposure (1-3 months) Children died because they ate food that had been contaminated with pesticides. A container of pesticides (monocrotophos) was found in the school. People sometimes bring some chemicals back into their ho(cid:373)es (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they"re (cid:374)ot wearing proper equipment so the chemicals settle on their clothes. Many of the pesticide workers are migrants who are not properly trained. Some pesticide that has a chemical similarity to a substance that caused problems in the. Drug users were virtually paralyzed, like suffering from the end stages of. The problem was a contaminant sold on the street as china white.