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Debbie Elliott Reports On The Serious Health Hazard

posed to homes and businesses in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas by the illegal, indoor use of an agricultural pesticide. Nearly a thousand people have been moved out of their homes because methyl parathion was sprayed inside to kill cockroaches.

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