Then the numbers spiked: The DEA found 6,061 tainted samples in 2008 and 7,427 in 2009.

The DEA first reported seeing significant amounts of levamisole-tainted cocaine in 2005, with 331 samples testing positive. These days, levamisole is mostly used by farmers to deworm cows and pigs-and, for some reason, it's also used by people in the cocaine trade. (The study didn't mention whether the drugs poisoned the girls.) According to the International Journal of Dermatology, a 10-day course of levamisole tablets was 'completely effective': The girls took the drugs, and the drugs poisoned the lice. One of the last studies on levamisole use in humans was in 2001, when Iranian researchers gave the drug to a group of girls who lived in crowded, unhygienic conditions with uncontrollable lice infestations. Then, after a blood transfusion, she died. Over the next nine days, under the care of baffled physicians, she sprouted 'brownish papular eruptions' all over her face and body, necrotic abscesses on her neck and buttocks, and 'a greyish-green dirty membrane' covering her mouth and throat with 'scattered small greyish ulcers.' In one cubic millimeter of blood, her doctors found 4,000,000 red blood cells but only 1,000 white blood cells. In one vividly described case from the 1920s, an otherwise healthy 40-year-old woman came down with a mysterious fever. Some people don't see a doctor until it's too late.īasically, agranulocytosis is a catastrophic crash in a person's immune system, which can turn a zit, a scratch, or even the bacteria that normally live in and around your body into a life-threatening infection.

Some people have it, don't know it, and get better without seeing a doctor. Some people get skin infections, sores in their mouth or anus, or just a fever. A granulocytosis can kill you, but its symptoms are frustratingly broad.

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