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BIOL 3800 Or. Cruz Fleacide Mysteryll : Rk . Iy D B P P g Tk AR T t G QTN B YUY, G ema i ! ‘:‘;‘P \é‘“ N e j{ e % e & 'Mx"."" 5 0% N | TSI O £A LY 107" G ¥ Part L. Read the following scenario: A 4 year old girl is brought into the Medical Examiner’s office. You read the following report from the hospital: At 10 am, the mother returns from the store to find the girl vomiting, not sleepmg well and lethargic. Mother puts the girl to bed. Ten minutes later, she noticed that the glrl’s breathing became irregular and slow. She tried to wake her daughter but was unable to do so. The child became comatose. At noon, the girl was admitted to the hospltal with not heartbeat or spontaneous breathing. A police report states the following: The parents discovered that the girl had given her dog a bath using Fleacide. According to the label on the container, Fleacide is an insecticide made of some plant materials and appropriate for external use on animals. Ingredients from label: — PERMETHRIN — N-OCTYL BICYCLOHEPTENE DICARBOXIMIDE ~——COCONUT OIL —METHOPRENE _ ROTENONE Answer the following questions: 1. What could have been in the flea dip that killed the girl? = QDW\GY\B 2. How could a product that is normally harmless to humans and pets have killed the girl? ({W\LJ{J 3. Also make a quick note of what you learned about any of these chemicals and questions you i yarts B iomON 51 (g (NADH oRdase) sesiEe-S) Part I1. Autopsy report The girl died within two hours of first vomiting. Immediate cause of death was hypoxia (lack of oxygen). Tissue sections from the kidneys, lungs, thymus, and heart show massive cell death. Staining with cellular dyes indicates the mitochondria within the affected tissues were damaged.