Also the first widely used pesticide was "lead arsenate". Everyone's crops were coated in difficult-to-wash lead and arsenic, which also would leach into the soil, where it is readily absorbed especially by grains, which got into peoples' bread or fed to animals who would be slaughtered and eaten, etc.
Also the first widely used pesticide was "lead arsenate". Everyone's crops were coated in difficult-to-wash lead and arsenic, which also would leach into the soil, where it is readily absorbed especially by grains, which got into peoples' bread or fed to animals who would be slaughtered and eaten, etc.
Arsenic-based pesticides were only banned in 1993 or so.
Symptoms of arsenic poisoning include: chicken pox and shingles "because it re-activates the virus". In dogs and cats symptoms include: skin conditions that look an awful lot like chicken pox and shingles but it's not a virus it's just poisoning.
The contortions people have to go through to maintain the concept of "contagious diseases" is something else.
Also the first widely used pesticide was "lead arsenate". Everyone's crops were coated in difficult-to-wash lead and arsenic, which also would leach into the soil, where it is readily absorbed especially by grains, which got into peoples' bread or fed to animals who would be slaughtered and eaten, etc.
Arsenic-based pesticides were only banned in 1993 or so.
Symptoms of arsenic poisoning include: chicken pox and shingles "because it re-activates the virus". In dogs and cats symptoms include: skin conditions that look an awful lot like chicken pox and shingles but it's not a virus it's just poisoning.
The contortions people have to go through to maintain the concept of "contagious diseases" is something else.