On a morning of 9 December 1996 the workers in Malita, Davao del Sur, Philippines, try using a new type of pesticide in their cocoa plantations. Pest-pest in the region that has become resistant pesticide other types, they said. They think this is the time to try to pesticides type of new, more powerful. Twenty-three workers began to spray at 7 am, without knowing that they are dealing with the types of pesticides that nerve gas is very dangerous. One hour later, a worker unconscious. After the lapse of three hours, other workers feel nausea, vomiting, dizziness and views into blurred. Some people lose consciousness again. That eventually all workers taken to the hospital. Groups of workers began the second hose at 10 am on the day of the same, without knowing what happened to the first group of workers. In a matter of minutes, they also feel the symptoms of the same. The volunteers to come to that place to help, but they also toxication. Altogether 52 people entered the hospital because of the pesticide toxication day, 35 of them are poisoned.(Romeo Quijano dan Sarojeni V. Rengam)
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