Chemical weapons yellow rain

Smith, Elizabeth A. International Regulation of Chemical and Biological Weapons Yellow Rain and Arms Control , University of Illinois Law Review, 1984, No. 4. 

Rosen RT, RosenJD. Presence of four Fusarium mycotoxins and synthetic material in yellow rain Evidence for the use of chemical weapons in Laos. Biomed Mass Spectrom. 1982 9(10) 443-450. 

L. R. Ember, Yellow Rain , p. 26 S. Watson and D. Cullen, Hearings... Foreign Policy and Arms Control Implications of Chemical Weapons, pp.40,59-63,67-9. 

TRICHOTHECENE MYCOTOXINS. A family of structurally related poisonous substances produced by various species of fungi, especially Acremorium (Cephalosporium), Fusarium, Myrothe-cium, Stachybotrys, Trichderme, and Verticumonosporium. Tri-chothecene mycotoxins are toxic to humans because they inhibit cellular protein synthesis. Prominent examples are deoxynivalenol (sometimes referred to as vomitoxin because it induces vomiting), diacetoxyscirpenol, HT-2, nivalenol, and T-2. These five toxins gained some notoriety in the so-caUed yellow rain events in Southeast Asia because of allegations that they were associated with Soviet-inspired use of chemical weapons (CW). 

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