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How does vitamin D-3 kill mice?

Joe and Teresa Graedon
Feb 23, 2019
Feb 23, 2019 Updated Feb 23, 2019

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Question: I had a little mouse problem, so I went to buy some mouse poison. The first brand I bought turned out to contain a nerve toxin. I didn’t want to mess with that, so I returned it and searched for D-Con.

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Joe Graedon is a pharmacologist; Dr. Teresa Graedon is a medical

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