days after aeration. The couple experienced weakness, nausea and shortness of breath that evening. The man suffered a seizure and died the following day. His wife's condition got worse with pulmonary edema, and she died after a cardiovascular arrest 6 days later. In 2015 a 10-year-old boy suffered severe brain damage and lost function of his left arm and leg after his home was treated with sulfuryl fluoride and insufficiently aerated, prompting a criminal investigation by the Department of Justice and the Florida Department of Agricultural and Consumer Services. Two pest control workers later pled guilty to charges of misuse of the pesticide resulting in the boy's poisoning, and were each sentenced to one year in prison. In 2016, a 24-year-old man who allegedly entered an apartment that was being fumigated in Fremont, California to commit a burglary was exposed to sulfuryl fluoride and chloropicrin and died shortly thereafter. According to a police officer, he experienced labored breathing and was sweating before he collapsed just a few steps from the first floor window of the apartment he allegedly robbed. Greenhouse gas Based on the first high frequency, high precision, in situ atmospheric and archived air measurements, sulfuryl fluoride has an atmospheric lifetime of 30–40 years, much longer than the 5 years earlier estimated. Sulfuryl fluoride has been reported to be a greenhouse gas which is about 4000–5000 times more efficient in trapping infrared radiation (per kg) than carbon dioxide (per kg). The amount of sulfuryl fluoride released into the atmosphere is about 2000 metric tons per year. The most important loss process of sulfuryl fluoride is dissolution of atmospheric sulfuryl fluoride in the ocean followed by hydrolysis. References External links Sulfuryl Fluoride Technical Fact Sheet - National Pesticide Information Center Sulfuryl Fluoride General Fact Sheet - National Pesticide Information Center Sulfuryl Fluoride Pesticide Information Profile - Extension Toxicology Network NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sulfuryl compounds Oxyfluorides Fumigants Neurotoxins Greenhouse gases Sulfur oxohalides