Poison

  • Chinese billionaire dies after eating poisoned cat stew: police

    Posted: January 5th, 2012 - 3:27am by Doug Powell

    Chinese billionaire Long Liyuan died after dining on slow-boiled cat meat stew laced with the toxic herb Gelsemium elegans during a business lunch in the Guangdong province.

    The case became an online sensation after the police said they had detained the local official, Huang Guang, who had also been hospitalized with food poisoning after the Dec. 23 lunch, in the city of Yangjiang.

    The police now suspect that Mr. Huang slipped Gelsemium elegans into the stew while eating lunch with Long Liyuan, 49, who ran a forestry company, and another friend. To avoid suspicion, Mr. Huang apparently ate some of the stew himself. All three men were hospitalized, according to the police account, and Mr. Long died almost immediately.

    The police discovered evidence that Mr. Huang had embezzled money from Mr. Long, and detained him on Dec. 30.

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  • Strangers with candy: German Scrooge poisons Xmas with spiked schnapps

    Posted: December 10th, 2011 - 3:36pm by Doug Powell

    An unidentified Scrooge poisoned visitors to two of Berlin's popular Christmas markets with an offer of tiny bottles of liquor that were laced with vomit-inducing chemicals, police said on Friday.

    The suspect, who was in his mid-40s, hit two of the traditional holiday fairs on Thursday and at the first, spoke to two foreign students, a man and a woman in their mid-20s, in English.

    "He told them about the purported birth of his daughter and handed out little schnapps bottles for a toast," police said in a statement.

    "After they drank, the two victims began experiencing severe cramps and vomiting."

    The woman lost consciousness and had to be hospitalised.

    Later at another Christmas market, what appeared to be the same blond man approached a group of three women in their early 20s with the same story. They also accepted a drink and later had to be treated in hospital.

     

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  • I remember, I had the lasagna; fish fells Tyrese

    Posted: November 30th, 2011 - 10:07pm by Doug Powell

    Tyrese may be ripped, but nothing bad seafood couldn’t fell.

    The singer, actor, whatever was sent to the ER after eating some bad seafood; that was the conclusion of arm-chair epidemiologists.

    Doctors ordered him to stay in bed for the day.

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  • Blame it on the Paraguayans: Tyler says food poisoning brought on shower fall

    Posted: October 25th, 2011 - 10:18pm by Doug Powell

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    Aerosmith frontman, American Idol judge and androgynous scarf-model Steven Tyler fell in his shower this morning in a Paraguay hotel, requiring treatment for injuries to his face, including loss of teeth.

    Sources connected with Tyler told TMZ dude was suffering from dehydration caused by a bout of food poisoning.

    TMZ spoke with the singer's manager ... who described Tyler's injuries as "minor" and said Steven has already been released from the hospital.

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  • 206 sick after food poisoning hits NATO base in northern Afghanistan

    Posted: October 13th, 2011 - 3:04pm by Doug Powell

    Food poisoning has sickened 206 NATO soldiers who ate in a German army canteen at Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, defence authorities in Berlin said Thursday.

    They said the 138 Germans and 68 military from other nations quickly had quickly recovered from the symptoms and overall fighting strength was not affected.

    All had eaten Wednesday at the canteen in the ISAF regional headquarters in Mazar-i-Sharif. The kitchen was disinfected and preparation of meals resumed there on Thursday. Army scientists were still hunting for the source of the infection.

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  • Pierce Brosnan’s wife sues over bad food in 2009

    Posted: October 6th, 2011 - 4:03am by Doug Powell

    TMZ.com reports that Mrs. Pierce Brosnan, Keely Brosnan, is suing a Santa Monica restaurant, claiming she ate tainted food.

    Keely claims she went to R & D Kitchen -- a fancy schmancy restaurant that has great burgers -- back in October 2009, and became "sore, ill and injured."

    The suit does not say what Keely ate, but claims she "sustained serious and permanent injuries to her health, strength and activity."

    She's suing for unspecified damages.

    Seems a little late for a lawsuit.

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  • Antifreeze-tainted vinegar kills 11 in China, 120 poisoned

    Posted: August 22nd, 2011 - 1:44am by Doug Powell

    Vinegar contaminated with anti-freeze was suspected of causing the deaths of 11 people who ate an evening feast during the ongoing Ramadan holiday in a Muslim area of China.

    Local police told state media that vinegar stored in two plastic barrels that had previously contained anti-freeze was thought to be the cause of mass poisoning after about 150 people ate together on Friday evening in a remote village in Pishan county in the western region of Xinjiang.

    Investigations were continuing and toxicity tests had still not confirmed the source of the poisoning, the official Xinhua news agency quoted a police statement as saying.

    The statement said about 120 people were poisoned with one person still in critical condition by Monday.
     

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  • Lobster feast sickens over 220 in China

    Posted: August 12th, 2011 - 1:34pm by Doug Powell

    More than 220 people were hospitalized after eating lobsters in east Jiangxi Province, a local hospital reported on Friday.

    Ruichang city residents who unsuspectingly indulged in a Thursday night lobster feast later suffered from diarrhea, vomiting, and some contracted a fever, said Gong Jinwen, a doctor who treated the sick at Renmin Hospital. Doctors speculate that E. coli could be the cause.

    More than 4,000 people attended the lobster shindig, which was part of the city's government-sponsored lobster festival.

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  • Brazilian boy dies after eating poisoned cookies

    Posted: June 16th, 2011 - 7:54am by Doug Powell

    A 12-year-old boy died after eating cookies poisoned by two girls at his school in north-eastern Brazil, police said today.

    The girls, aged 13 and 14, admitted putting a deadly dose of rat poison in the cookies, but claimed they were meant for two rival girls at their school on the outskirts of the city of Recife.

    The boy, who was called to deliver the toxic cookies to allay suspicions, was not aware of the plan and ate them instead, with deadly result. He was taken to hospital in agony and died shortly afterwards.

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  • Workers' 'squalid' catering unit in UAE closed after hundreds fall sick

    Posted: March 28th, 2011 - 7:33pm by Doug Powell

    The United Arab Emirates has made food safety a priority, and food service companies have apparently imported some Western-style BS explanations when people barf.

    A spokesthingy for a labor camp operated by Abu Dhabi-based Al Jaber Group, told The National.

    "The safety of our staff is our utmost priority. … In more than two decades of operation, and serving 150,000 meals a day all over the UAE, this is the first instance of food poisoning at any of our camps."

    Not much consolation to the 236 workers who were diagnosed with food poisoning; the catering unit was found to be operating without a licence and under "squalid conditions."

    Investigators from the Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority (ADFCA) have closed down the catering unit at the Habshan Labour Camp after 117 workers were taken to Madinat Zayed Hospital on Saturday and Sunday, and a further 119 were treated on site at the camp.

    Inspectors found cockroaches inside the water dispensers and destroyed 675kg of cooked rice which was kept in "unsafe conditions for more than four hours", according to a statement released by ADFCA.

    The inspection report stated the camp, which caters for 2,200 workers, was "violating all norms of hygiene and disregarding the health consequences for the labourers."

    Cross-contamination - mixing meat, poultry and vegetables, both raw and uncooked, in the same freezer - was apparent, and food products did not have manufacturing details on them, so may have been expired, the report said.

    Mohammed al Reyaysa, the director of communications at ADFCA, described the conditions as "shocking" and said "the people behind this disaster will not go unpunished."

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