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Skin exposure to high concentrations can cause what’s known as chloracne — an intense skin inflammation, Guengerich said.

The recent sightings of dead birds in several districts where teargas canisters have been fired, and news that a frontline reporter has been diagnosed with chloracne, a skin disease linked to dioxin exposure, have sparked a health scare over the harmful effects of the noxious gas on the health of Hong Kong’s population.

I had never heard of dioxin, but now everyone in Hong Kong has because a local reporter who has been live-streaming the protests developed chloracne, possibly after prolonged exposure to tear gas.

Dioxins were once used to poison the Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko ahead of the 2004 election, causing a disfiguring condition called chloracne.

The Agent Orange Act of 1991 accepted a presumed link to illnesses like non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, soft-tissue sarcoma and chloracne.