In addition to breathing difficulties and lung damage, some people have reported vomiting, diarrhea and fatigue.

When back-to-back mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, jolted the nation earlier this month, President Donald Trump again spoke of “building new facilities” for the mentally ill as a way to reduce mass shootings.

The psychoactive drug boosts chemicals like serotonin and oxytocin and tamps down activity in the amygdala, a part of the brain that processes fear.

Maine Family Planning also pulls out of the program rather than abide by a Trump administration rule prohibiting participants from referring women for abortions.

The die-off highlights questions about the ocean of pesticides used in the country’s agriculture and whether chemicals are washing through the human food supply – even as the government considers permitting more of them.