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(回答先: 生物化学兵器「黄色い雨」騒動 米国務省が撤回するまでの顛末 投稿者 hhh 日時 2007 年 4 月 07 日 00:08:44)
2002年6/11 インド・カルカッタ東で「黄緑色の雨」が降り、住民が一時パニックに
陥った。地元科学者らは「マンゴー・ココナッツの花粉を含む蜜蜂の糞」であると報
告、騒ぎは収束した。
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NewScientist 2002/6/22 記事
インドの黄緑の雨は冷戦偏執病の記憶を喚起する
ttp://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17423481.500.html
以下
ABCニュース 2002/6/13 報道
ttp://www.abc.net.au/news/scitech/2002/06/item20020611234919_1.htm
Bee droppings stain Indian rain green, yellow
Green and yellow pre-monsoon rains lashing an eastern Indian town have sparked panic among superstitious villagers, but scientists say the phenomenon is nothing but bee droppings.
The oddly coloured rain, which began Friday, has sent droves of villagers to Hindu temples to pray for divine mercy on Sangrampur, 50 kilometers east of Calcutta in the state of West Bengal.
Sutanu Prasad Kar, a local administrative official, says people are flocking to temples to pray.
"They think they have incurred the wrath of the Hindu gods and goddesses," he said.
However, researchers have concluded the rain's colour is no more than excretion from bees that have consumed a cocktail of pollen from mangoes, coconuts, parthenium and grass.
Deepak Chakraborty, the chief scientist of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board, says tests by his board and research centre in Calcutta came to the same conclusion.
"The green droplets were probably washed off by the rain from the tree leaves," he said.
Villagers will be told of the scientists' findings and urged not to panic.
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