Jakes Paralysis

Jamaica Ginger 

Jake Paralysis

During prohibition an alcohol beverage was contaminated with TOCP

TOCP (Triortho cresyl phosphate)

TOCP was associated with Paralysis

Jake Leg Paralysis

During prohibition of alcohol people in America got drunk the best way they could 

One way was through a highly alcoholic liquid Jamaica Ginger 

Jamaica Ginger was sold as a poorly disguised Medicine

Jamaica Ginger sold as a Medicine 

Medicine was a slow acting neurotoxin

It affected neurons that controls causing muscle weakness in arms and legs 

Ginger Paralysis

History and Toxicity

Current Events

Iran and Prohibition Of Alcohol

Coronavirus: Testing Times

Iranians breaking the rule and paying the price 

       Nearly 500 people dead in Iran after drinking methanol to fight off COVID-19

Iranian media report nearly 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 sickened so far by ingesting methanol across the Islamic Republic, where drinking alcohol is banned and where those who do rely on bootleggers. An Iranian doctor helping the country's Health Ministry told The Associated Press on Friday the problem was even greater, giving a death toll of around 480 with 2,850 people sickened.

                                          5 year old boy and Methanol

Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public for just one thing: Stop drinking industrial alcohol over fears about the new coronavirus.

The boy, now blind after his parents gave him toxic methanol in the mistaken belief it protects against the virus, is just one of hundreds of victims of an epidemic inside the pandemic now gripping Iran.

Snapshot

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