But by mid-June, Pluzhnikov was in a coma, reportedly from "toxic hepatitis, " sparking eerie flashbacks to last fall's "illness" of now President Victor Yushchenko.
Take the Aral Sea in Central Asia, now a shrunken, poisonous cesspool of pesticide residues and toxic chemicals that are causing an explosion of chronic bronchitis, cancer, typhoid and hepatitis, kidney and liver disease.