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Berlin -
Visitors to Berlin's Christmas markets should beware of "Bad Santa" bearing offerings of spiked drinks which have so far poisoned at least eight people.
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UK police have concluded that 17 people were poisoned by insulin contamination of saline solution at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, UK. Investigators still don't know who did it, or who had access to medical supplies.
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Beijing -
In China’s latest case of mass lead poisoning, at least 600 people have been sickened, including 103 children, from tinfoil processing workshops located in Zhejiang province in the eastern part of the country.
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Los Angeles -
A group of researchers are suggesting bitumen, found in tar balls and containing carcinogenic agents, may have led to a decline in health of California’s prehistoric peoples, the Chumash, who regularly used the now-known toxic material.
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Auburn -
An Auburn University spokesperson says in an interview that she's seeing a mix of shock and determination on campus following the poisoning of two cherished oak trees. But experts believe “the prognosis is not good” for the oaks.
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Newham -
Two former council workers have been sentenced to jail and fined for deliberately poisoning animals in a UK park earlier this year.
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Mainz -
A contaminated drip is blamed for the death of two children in a German hospital. Five others are critically ill after being poisoned from a bacteria infested drip.
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Dhaka -
The World Health Organisation calls it "the largest mass poisoning of a population in history" as a new study shows up to 77 million Bangladeshi's were poisoned by their country's water supply.
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It appears that there might be a potential break through in the 27 year old case of poisoning of Tylenol capsules that resulting in seven deaths.
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A vet is saying that the 21 polo horses that died Sunday in South Florida were poisoned. The horses all died from some kind of poison that triggered what is suspected to be heart failure.
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 A U.S. government panel is recommending lowering the threshold for lead poisoning in children, a move that could see hundreds of thousands more children diagnosed with lead poisoning.
Police in Indonesia arrest a man accused of killing at least four men with rat poison after having sex with them.
Militants kill four Afghan policemen and two civilians by poisoning their yoghurt before launching an attack, officials say.
At least five Afghan policemen are poisoned and then shot dead at a checkpoint in the southern city of Kandahar, intelligence officials say.
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