orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) (12/12/85)
I was wrong in the following : > 1)Please name the articles which substantiated that "Yellow Rain" was > in fact chemical warfare. I would be *very* surprised if there were > any such articles since the allegations were based on a few findings > of tricothecenes in samples by a particular lab, which could never be > confirmed by the Army's own lab itself The January '86 Scientific American contains a letter by Chester Mirocha, whose lab was the only lab to find tricothecenes in "Yellow Rain" samples, referring to several articles. Seeley et al responded to Mirocha's claims that any findings of tricothecenes were proof of chemical warfare by reiterating their basic point: that every sample of "Yellow Rain" ever examined, including Mirocha's own samples, contains pollens of exactly the sort found in bee pollens. They also pointed out that a study by Greenhalgh showed that tricothecenes could be produced naturally. There is still conclusive evidence that "Yellow Rain" is not chemical warfare but naturally occurring bee feces. tim sevener whuxn!orb