Slow poison: how Queensland government workers paid the price for fruit fly eradication

During the 1990s, workers were told not to worry about breathing in the poison, but years later they suffer debilitating illnessesRobert Paul Sharman remembers how the smell of the gas would linger.Outside the fumigation chambers it hung around, bonded to the tropical North Queensland air, amid the hottest November on record. When Sharman went home, and nursed his baby son to sleep, the odour of the gas was still there.Doctors who I’ve spoken to say there’s no doubt that’s what