{"id":5924,"date":"2009-06-02T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2009-06-02T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T18:04:22","slug":"kafkazine-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5924","title":{"rendered":"Kafkazine Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"

While walking her dogs<\/a> in Corolla [NC] last month near their home on Corova Road, resident Ilze Drozds-Russano heard a helicopter fly overhead, then felt a cool mist spray across her body.<\/p>\n

Instantly, her eyes began to burn and as the chemicals seeped through from the misting, she was unable to open her eyes.<\/p>\n

Making it back to the home, she quickly and thoroughly washed the spray off her body and the dogs, but within hours Russano developed a severe rash and other flu-like symptoms, breathing complications, and nausea for several days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Horrible, eh? That's not the worst part. <\/p>\n

...Russano\u2019s doctor explained that he could not offer her a diagnosis or treatment plan because the chemicals in the gypsy moth pesticide, known as Foray 76B, are trade secret ingredients owned by Canada-based manufacturer Valent Biosciences Corp. <\/p>\n

The doctor was stymied. He said, \u2018If you don\u2019t know what\u2019s in it, I can\u2019t help you.\u2019\u201d Russano\u2019s husband Frank Russano said. \u201cShe cannot be tested, or treated for the rash, and now she\u2019s developed this flu and we have no of knowing if the two are related.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If this happened to me, I'd have a swarm of ravenous lawyers chewing their way through the company that owns the helicopter, the pilot of that helicopter, the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences and, of course, the pesticide manufacturer. Munch. Munch. Munch. And then my lawyers would leave the brown and dessicated husks of those companies and return to me as butterflies made of fresh, sweet, settlement cash. And there would be pie - assuming I lived that long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While walking her dogs in Corolla [NC] last month near their home on Corova Road, resident Ilze Drozds-Russano heard a helicopter fly overhead, then felt a cool mist spray across her body. Instantly, her eyes began to burn and as the chemicals seeped through from the misting, she was unable to open her eyes. Making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}