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Two children have died at a kindergarten in China, after ingesting rat poison planted by educators from a rival school.
The school girls from Lianghe village, Pingshan county, Hebei province died after eating yogurt laced with tetramine, found by the side of the road near the school by the girl's grandmother.
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3 May 2013
07:39 GMT |
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Throughout the past 18 months, over 100 rhinos living at the Sabi Saba game reserve in South Africa have had their horns poisoned and injected with an inedible pink dye.
Oddly enough, this procedure is not meant to harm the animals in any way. Quite the contrary: the poison and the dye are probably the only things ... |
12 April 2013
16:21 GMT |
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Chicago lottery winner Urooj Khan’s body is to be exhumed on Friday, as an autopsy is scheduled to confirm the cause of death as homicide by cyanide poisoning.
As we reported previously, Khan's death was originally attributed to natural causes, until blood tests indicated the presence of cyanide in his b... |
19 January 2013
04:54 GMT |
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19-year-old Kayla Ashlyn Bonkowski, a student at Central Michigan University, is facing criminal investigation after verbally admitting to putting bleach in her roommate's drink.
Michigan Live reports that she has been arraigned on felony charges of poisoning food, drink, medicine, or water supply. She pleads n... |
7 December 2012
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Vickie Jo Mills was charged with assault, aggravated assault, and reckless endangerment after repeatedly poisoning her boyfriend with Visine eye drops, the RecordHerald reports. The 33-year-old from Ayr Township, Pennsylvania could be serving a lifetime sentence after admittedly spiking her boyfriend´s drinks ... |
21 September 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Following a study of more than 30,000 individuals in the United Kingdom, conducted between 2000 and 2007, experts at the University of Oxford found that people who harm themselves are three times more likely to die prematurely.
In a paper detailing the findings, published in the latest issue of the journal The Lanc... |
19 September 2012
07:43 GMT |
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Investigators at the Rice University say that house mice are evolving to withstand the impact that a common poison is having on the general population. This resistance is developing in unexpected ways.Experts think they identified two ways through which such resistance was achieved. It took the mice millennia to get ... |
22 July 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Poisoned workers based at a factory in east China's Suzhou industrial park owned by Wintek have sent a letter to Apple appealing for help, as they have not fully recuperated.
In its Supplier Responsibility report, Apple admitted that 137 Wintek workers had been taken to hospital due to hexyl hydride, or n-hex... |
22 February 2011
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The long line of politicians interested in raising political capital by attacking videogames can add another high profile figure to their ranks in the person of Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, who has attacked the console industry and Nintendo and Sony specifically for creating titles that focus on violence ... |
19 January 2010
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Packrats in the southwestern parts of the US were subjected to a very drastic change in scenery, from 18,700 to 10,000 years ago, as the region in which they lived gradually became warmer. The juniper trees, their main source of food, and the most enjoyable at that, disappeared due to the increased temperatures, and ... |
6 April 2009
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Scientists have only recently discovered an alga that is extremely potent, in that it has the natural ability to detoxify the deadly poison arsenic. The tiny organism, which is actually a simple unicellular alga known as Cyanidioschyzon, can metabolize the chemical in places where the latter occurs naturally, such as... |
10 March 2009
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Without counting with the microscopic fungi, there are 3,800 species of mushrooms in Europe alone. 250 species are toxic but very few can kill: about 12 species. The same mushroom species can have various effects, depending on its age, consumed amount and the health state of the consumer.In France, three mushrooms ar... |
2 April 2008
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Newts and salamanders may look cute and helpless, but you'd be surprised to know that they produce one of the most powerful toxins for protection in the amphibian world. Still, the common garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) of North America indulge in rough-skinned newts (Taricha granulosa), considered the most ... |
20 March 2008
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Napoleon ruled Europe at his will for 20 years, until his ultimate defeat in the battle of Waterloo, in 1815. Imprisoned, he was exiled by the British in St. Helena, one of the most isolated islands in the world, in Southern Atlantic Ocean. He mysteriously died there on May 5, 1821. Arsenic poisoning has been for lon... |
13 February 2008
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It may not be the choice food when going to a date (and not only), but beyond the scent, garlic is a panacea. It is rich in manganese, phosphorous, selenium, calcium, potassium, iron and copper, and also in vitamins B1, B6 and C. Garlic contains sugar, and this is more evident in cooked garlic. Garlic has heart prote... |
16 January 2008
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In the scorching deserts of southern and eastern Africa and Arabia, where rainfall is a miracle, grows a jewel: the Desert-rose (Adenium obesum), also called Sabi Star or Kudu. It is closely related to the oleander from the Mediterranean area. With a delicate shape and contorted branches, this evergreen succulent shr... |
21 December 2007
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There are at least 500 species of medicinal plants utilized by the Indians of Amazon. 10 species coming from the Amazon are already employed by drug companies. Cat's claw (Uncaria tomentosa) is a woody vine related to the coffee tree, employed locally in Amazonia (Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador), drunk as infusion. T... |
22 November 2007
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Frogs can be pretty or not, but few people know that they can be extremely toxic. Most frogs you see are highly venomous (with one exception: the common frogs of the Rana genus). Like the cute little tree frogs. Still, they have their predators. Some snakes have 'a preference' for them, even venomous frogs,... |
13 November 2007
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Summer could be 'the season of food poisoning'; however, the problem can occur during the entire year. Food poisoning includes two cases: food intoxications and food infections. Intoxications occur when the toxin is already present in the food, and by heating or boiling it, the toxin is not destroyed. The i... |
25 September 2007
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If you thought Brazil has the most diverse fauna in South America (and in the world), you're wrong: this title belongs to Colombia. This is also showed by the rhythm of newly discovered species in this country: now researchers have found a new poisonous frog in a remote mountainous region of Colombia. The new sp... |
30 August 2007
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Fireworks make up a beautiful display of sound and color and are the main attraction in many social events, like festivals, inaugurations, concerts, but most of all, on the New Year's Eve. They may be beautiful on the outside, but they have some pretty weird stuff on the inside.The earliest recorded fireworks da... |
2 July 2007
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When this method was introduced in the late 1970s in Oklahoma, it was regarded as a more human way of execution and was soon adopted by many states as the main form of death penalty. Lethal injection, in which three toxic chemicals are administered to the condemned (sodium thiopental, an anesthestetic; pancuronium br... |
20 June 2007
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Poison frogs are famous for their toxin which is used for poisoning arrow tips. Their bright vivid colors warn the predators on their toxicity. The toxins from the frog skin protecting it from predators and infections are chemicals called alkaloids. But frogs cannot synthesize the alkaloids themselves, they have to a... |
16 May 2007
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There is no such thing as perfect crime, an undetectable crime where the killer gets away free. This is more fiction than reality, as most criminals are given away by even the simplest clues. There has been an increasing complexity in the way murderers kill their victims. One of the first things a criminal tries to d... |
11 May 2007
06:03 GMT |
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