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["Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>]

I read the book "A Plague of Frogs" which was fascinating but very 
frustrating as they didn't seem to find anything to account for the missing 
legs and other deformities.  Finally they figured out that it had to do with 
vitamin A and the thyroid, pretty basic stuff that humans have too, and the 
phermone disrupting chemicals that have been considered pretty safe.  It 
turned out that in one of the safety studies, just one, a large number of 
missing legs occurred, but that was old out of date product that must have 
broken down, so it was ignored.  Of course, in nature, chemicals get old and 
broken down...       Donna