In 2003, approximately 100 people living next to a Bt cornfield in the Philippines developed skin, respiratory, intestinal reactions and other symptoms while the corn was shedding pollen.
Blood tests of 39 people showed an antibody response to Bt-toxin, which supports—but does not prove—a link.
The symptoms reappeared in 2004 in at least four other villages that planted the same corn variety.
Villagers also attribute several animal deaths to the corn.
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Check out the Le Monde research.
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Comments by Jeffrey M. Smith
Date: May 11, 2007
Thank you for this update, which we will be sure to include in the newer editions of Genetic Roulette. Le Monde wrote an article about this new research, which is posted here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/
article_4790.cfm.
