![]() ![]() ![]() In Egypt, for example, the monsoons failed and the critical resulting annual Nile flood failed to occur. The causes of these deaths ranged from famine and drought, hypothermia and heat stroke, bronchitis, asthma, emphysema, and other respiratory ailments to fluorine poisoning and even more bizarre maladies such as suffocation by carbon dioxide. While the direct death toll in Iceland resulting from the eruption was only 9,300 poor souls, estimates of the number of fatalities world wide range as high as a staggering 6,000,000 deaths. ![]() With the aid of stratospheric weather and wind patterns over a period of eight months following Laki’s first eruption, a toxic cocktail of ash, fluorine, sulphur and other poisonous chemicals that had been propelled to the upper reaches of earth’s atmosphere, was spread over much of the northern hemisphere throughout the world. The 1783 eruption of Laki in Iceland is one of the world’s great unsung natural disasters. ![]()
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