Yellow Rain and Soviet Cheating

‘Yellow rain” is the name the H’Mong, a primitive mountain people of Laos, gave to the substance that fell on their villages. It is a quaint name. The H’Mong have no written language.

H’Mong refugees fleeing into Thailand in the summer of 1975 were the first to tell of the yellowish powder and its results: bloody diarrhea, vomiting of blood, numerous small, hard blisters. The survivors had been on the periphery of the attacks, or had consumed contaminated material. They were the fortunate ones. Trichothecene mycotoxins kill you by bursting your blood vessels and arteries. You die as a waterballoon of blood.

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‘Yellow rain” is the name the H’Mong, a primitive mountain people of Laos, gave to the substance that fell on their villages. It is a quaint name. The H’Mong have no written language.

H’Mong refugees fleeing into Thailand in the summer of 1975 were the first to tell of the yellowish powder and its results: bloody diarrhea, vomiting of blood, numerous small, hard blisters. The survivors had been on the periphery of the attacks, or had consumed contaminated material. They were the fortunate ones. Trichothecene mycotoxins kill you by bursting your blood vessels and arteries. You die as a waterballoon of blood.