[lm2s]

This one hits close to home. I had a very close family member die because of a Parkinson-like decease not long ago. He had the misfortune of inhaling quite a bit of herbicide after dropping a bag in an enclosed space and ~10 years later he got the decease. Since there was no history of Parkinson or Parkinson-like deceases in the family history, the doctors conclusion was that it must have been a toxic induced decease (not sure how to pronoun this exactly) and the large amount of herbicide inhale in that day was probably the cause.

[bschne]

Reading about this — I'm sorry to hear about your loss! — makes me wish we understood the dynamics of things like this much better than we do. Some stuff seems pretty clearly "not good", but sometimes it's really hard to reason about what is bad as long as you're exposed and leaves relatively little lasting damage, or what can have bad effects with highly delayed onset, and how the mechanism of "setting in motion the delayed-onset damage" works, exactly — is it the substance that stays in your body and continues to do damage, does it throw some process off-balance that then continues to harm you even after the substance is gone, etc. If anyone has any pointers to sources that cover our understanding of this better, I'd be very interested to read more about it.

[guerrilla]

disease*

[InCityDreams]

But my goodness, "decease" seems more appropriate.

[dappermanneke]

your close family member would need to be exposed to tubs of paraquat for at the very least months at a time for this to be even remotely probable. unless he had to go to hospital due to acute exposure and paraquat toxicity that day, and even then