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5 dead in Florida motel carbon monoxide poisoning

JENNIFER KAY Yahoo! News 12/28/2010
5 dead in Florida motel carbon monoxide poisoning

Five young men who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a South Florida motel room were constant companions who acted like brothers and even went shoe shopping together before Christmas so they all would have the same pair, relatives said Tuesday.

Australian vegetables poisoned as police probe sabotage

Police in Australia are investigating the poisoning of seven million vegetable seedlings, including tomatoes, aubergines and melons.

Poisoning at Harvard: 6 lab workers sickened by coffee

Adam Smith and O’Ryan Johnson Boston Herald 10/26/2009
Lovesick Indian Student Pours Pesticide into School Water Tank

A lovesick 16-year-old boy poured pesticide into a school water tank in India Tuesday -- hoping to kill those responsible for humiliating him, The Times of India reported.

Poisoning at Harvard: 6 lab workers sickened by coffee

Harvard University Medical School is locking down its New Research Building, installing new surveillance cameras and imposing tighter security after researchers in the pathology department of the Boston building drank poisoned coffee and were hospitalized.

Lead Poisoning May Cause Lower IQ for Kids Near China Smelter

Children exposed to lead at five times the normal limit from a smelter in China may become less intelligent than healthy peers, doctors specializing in the effects of poisons said.

China says 1,300 children sickened in lead poisoning case

BEIJING — More than 1,300 children have been sickened in a lead poisoning case in China's central Hunan province, the second such case involving a large number of children in the past month, state media said Thursday.

 
Parents vent fury as 600 children in China treated for lead poisoning

Hundreds of children are receiving treatment for lead poisoning as anger has exploded into violence over pollution from a smelter in northwestern China.