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poison stories: 30 news summaries

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 Harvard Probes 
 Poisoning at 
 Med School Lab 

Office coffee caused fainting, dizziness, ringing in the ears

Oct 25, 09 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harvard Medical School is investigating after six workers in the pathology department were poisoned by coffee prepared near their lab. The researchers and students were treated and released after suffering dizziness, low blood pressure, and other symptoms during the August incident. "As the investigation continues, we are being prudent... More »

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Harvard Medical School • coffee • poison • toxin • pathology • Harvard • Harvard University • poisoning • sodium azide


 Beck: I Want 
 to Poison 
 Pelosi ... 
 Kidding! 

Sure, no one likes her, but still...

Aug 7, 09 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - So a few advertisers abandoned Glenn Beck’s show after his last bout of verbal diarrhea—so what? That didn’t stop him from “joking” that he wanted to poison Nancy Pelosi last night on his show, during a skit about hanging out at her “liberal, elitist wine... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • politics • poison • Glenn Beck • right wingers • liberal elite

 Poachers' 
 Poison Slays 
 Rare Elephant 

Giant male ate spiked pineapples

Jun 15, 09 3:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - A rare Sumatran elephant died after eating pineapples spiked with poison by poachers in northwestern Indonesia, officials report. The giant 30-year-old male, its tusks ripped out for the ivory, was the ninth Sumatran elephant found dead in the region in the last three months. At least seven of them were... More »

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crime • ivory • poison • wildlife • elephant • Sumatra • Sumatran elephant • poachers

Afghan Girls' Illness May Be Poisoning—or Hysteria

200 schoolgirls fall ill, but cause remains uncertain

May 19, 09 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some Afghan girls have described the odor as sweet and floral, others as smoky or rotten—but in the last three weeks, about 200 schoolgirls have suffered headaches, vomiting, and even collapse after smelling something. Parents fear that the Taliban is using poison to keep the girls from school.... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • women • school • poison • girls • hysterical

(Newser) - Australian scientists have discovered that the world’s largest lizard packs a lethal venom in its bite, the Guardian reports. MRI scans of an ailing Komodo dragon revealed venom glands in the mouth that had never before been documented. The dragons’ poison sends victims into shock by triggering a sudden... More »

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snake venom • poison • lizard • Komodo dragon

(Newser) - Britain's surging rat population is becoming immune to common poisons, spurring public heath concerns and calls for stronger pesticides, reports the Guardian. Rodents in at least two towns are impervious to normal control methods. In addition, years of mild winters and wet summers have boosted vermin populations by 66% in... More »

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rats • poison • Britain • pests • pesticide • pest control

 Wild Shrooms Kill Calif. Man 

82-year-old had a passion for mushroom foraging

Mar 13, 09 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A California man’s passion for collecting and eating wild mushrooms has cost him his life, the LA Times reports. The 82-year-old ate a generous portion of a deadly variety and died of poisoning a week later. His family had long warned him of the risks, but the man had... More »

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food • California • food safety • poison • fungus • mushrooms

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FBI Searches
Home of Tylenol Killings Suspect

Case of seven deaths in 1982 poisoning remains unsolved

Feb 4, 09 3:37 PM CST
(Newser) - FBI agents are searching the former residence of a suspect in the deaths of seven people who took cyanide-laced Tylenol in 1982, the Boston Globe reports. The case has never been solved, and agents say they are reviewing all related evidence. James W. Lewis lived in the Boston-area apartment after... More »

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Chicago • crime • Boston • drug companies • poison • Johnson and Johnson • tainted • Tylenol

KGB Radiation Poisoning Suspect Ready to Talk

Lugovoi offers to meet with UK investigators

Nov 22, 08 9:31 AM CST
(Newser) - A former KGB agent accused of poisoning a Russian dissident in England wants to clear his name, he tells the Times of London. Alexander Lugovoi has offered to send a friend to London to speak with investigators, and may travel to the UK himself if officials pledge not to arrest... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • Andrei Lugovoi • KGB • poison • polonium • assassin


Russian
Activist Lawyer Poisoned by Mercury

Ill, she misses hearing on journo's murder

Oct 16, 08 8:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - French police are probing the mercury poisoning of Russia's leading human rights lawyer, the New York Times reports. Toxic pellets were found in the car of Karinna Moskalenko in Strasbourg. She had been due to attend the Moscow trial of men accused of involvement in the murder of her late... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • poison • lawyer • Anna Politkovskaya • mercury poisoning

 Toxic Milk Poisons 6,000 Babies 

Outrage over escalating scandal as 3 die

Sep 17, 08 3:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - The toll from contaminated infant formula in China continues to mount alarmingly, with more than 6,000 babies poisoned and at least three killed, reports the BBC. Another 158 are suffering from acute kidney failure. The chemical melamine—which caused widespread pet deaths in contaminated food last year—has now... More »

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China • milk • food contamination • poison • baby formula • Sanlu Group • Fonterra

 Tainted Baby Formula 
 Kills 2 in China 

Dairy farms probed after banned toxic found in milk powder

Sep 15, 08 1:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two Chinese babies have died, 53 are in serious condition and 1,253 others are sick from widespread milk powder contamination, the New York Times reports. The baby formula laced with melamine—the same additive behind last year’s US pet-food recall—was recalled just last week by Sanlu Group,... More »

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China • FDA • poison • Food and Drug Administration • baby formula • pet food

 Made in China: 
 Toxic Baby Formula 

Dangerous food may be in some US markets

Sep 12, 08 2:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Baby formula made in China has been found to contain melamine, the same toxic substance that contaminated pet food and poisoned thousands of US dogs and cats last year. None of the formula is in the general US food supply—but some may be on the shelves in American Asian... More »

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China • FDA • melamine • poison • Food and Drug Administration • baby formula • pet food • contaminants

Horse Whisperer Writer Poisoned by Mushrooms

Author and family recovering after eating varieties they'd picked

Sep 3, 08 12:24 PM CDT
(AP) - The author of the best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer is recovering in a hospital after eating poisonous mushrooms he and his family picked during a holiday in Scotland, his agent said yesterday. Nicholas Evans, his wife, her sister and the sister's husband received dialysis treatment because the mushrooms included the... More »

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Scotland • poison • book • mushrooms • dialysis • Nicholas Evans

I Say! Brit Chef 'So Sorry' for Pushing
Poison Plant

Putting toxin on salad not so good after all

Aug 5, 08 3:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British celebrity chef has dished out a heartfelt apology for recommending in a magazine interview that readers use a poisonous plant that's "great on salads." He intended to push the wild herb fat hen, not henbane, which is a "very toxic plant and should never be... More »

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food • cooking • recipes • chef • poison • Antony Worrall Thompson

Brits: Russia Played Role in Ex-KGB Agent's London Murder

'Clear indications it
was state action'

Jul 8, 08 6:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The murder of a former KGB agent in London 2 years ago was carried out with the support of the Russian government, British government sources have told the BBC. There are "very strong indications it was a state action," said one senior official. Alexander Litvinenko, who was mysteriously... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • espionage • KGB • poison • spy • MI5

 Fish Toxin Buyer
 Linked to Murder Plot 

Man after puffer fish poison was seeking hit man

Jul 2, 08 3:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Illinois man busted trying to buy enough puffer fish toxin to kill dozens of people had been seeking to hire a hit man on the internet to kill a mystery woman, reports the Chicago Tribune. The financial planner sent emails to people offering $8,000 for the murder, authorities... More »

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fish • poison • Illinois • toxin • hit job • murder plot • puffer fish

Illinois Man Busted
With Puffer Fish Toxin

Tried to buy troubling amount from lab

Jul 1, 08 4:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Illinois man has been arrested for possession of a deadly neurotoxin found in puffer fish, reports CNN. Authorities were alerted after the man, claiming to be a doctor, attempted to purchase a significant amount of tetrodotoxin from a New Jersey lab. The poison—1,200 times more deadly than... More »

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fish • poison • toxin • neurotoxin • puffer fish

 Napolean Didn't Meet
 Aresenic-Laced End 

Italian researchers deflate claim of arsenic death

Jun 10, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - For decades scholars have debated whether Napoleon, who died in exile on the island of St. Helena in 1821, was poisoned with arsenic by his British captors; as recently as 2002 a biographer wrote that there was "nothing improbable about the hypothesis." But now a team of Italian... More »

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France • poison • history • Napoleon • arsenic

Japanese Fight Over Detoxed Delicacy

Fugu liver can now be safe, but traditionalists don't want it served

May 4, 08 7:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of Japan's prized delicacies is having an identity crisis: fugu, the pricey puffer fish that's poisonous unless prepared correctly, now has a farmed cousin that's harmless, the New York Times reports. But gourmands looking forward to eating fugu liver—the most delicious and potentially deadly part of the fish—... More »

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food • Japan • fish • poison • delicacy • ban • fugu

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