Monday, 11. November 2002
Topic: - on November 11, 2002 at 12:16:50 AM CET
New 'killer' mushroom set to end heroin trade
Tajik and Uzbek researchers have developed a genetically-modified "killer mushroom" that could wipe out the heroin industry in neighbouring Afghanistan, Tajik biologist Shavkat Saidmuradov told newspapers on Saturday. Experiments financed by the United Nations as part of its war on drugs have shown the efficacy of the "polyspore papavericide" in destroying the opium poppy on which heroin is based, said Saidmuratov, a collaborator with the Tajik drugs squad.
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