Poison
A substance that, when introduced into the body in relatively small quantities, causes destruction or malfunction of some tissues and organs. Depending on the quantity in the body (the dose), a...
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Poison and Antidote Actions
A poison is a compound that produces a deleterious change on or in the body. There are a large number of known poisons, with a myriad of effects. Toxicity is a general term...
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Toxic Substance
Toxic substances are materials that are poisonous to living organisms. There are hundreds of thousands of artificial and natural toxic substances, also known as toxins, that are foun...
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Poisons and Toxins
Substances that cause illness or death in living things.
A poison is a chemical that causes some dysfunction, or toxic reaction, in a person or other living thing. By definition, a ...
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Dennis Slaugh and his brother were riding all-terrain vehicles when they noticed what looked like a survey stake, marking federal land in Utah's rugged Cowboy Canyon.Curious, Slaugh touched the sta...
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The International Tennis Federation is investigating allegations that Tommy Haas was poisoned before Germany's Davis Cup match against Russia.Haas was forced out of his match against Mikhail Youzhn...
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Food Poisoning in cruises... Cruise-ship outbreaks of infectious diseases demonstrate how easily germs can be transmitted from person to person in a closed environment, resulting in lar...
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Sulfuric acid leaked into the water supply from a chemical factory in central China, poisoning at least 26 villagers who have been admitted to hospital with nausea and swollen faces, authorities sa...
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The U.S. Forest Service has issued a draft report with proposed plans to curtail prairie dogs on national grasslands through poisoning and other means.Conservation groups condemned the list of five...
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Two American women hospitalized for suspected thallium poisoning were in fair condition Thursday and were undergoing tests to determine why they fell ill while vacationing in Russia.Dr. Marina Kova...
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The U.S. Embassy on Wednesday confirmed that two American women have been hospitalized in Moscow for possible thallium poisoning.An embassy spokesman identified the women as Marina Kovalevsky and h...
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State television aired an interview Sunday implying that a former spy was fatally dosed with radiation to stop him revealing that a Russian tycoon deceived British officials to win political asylum...
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President Viktor Yushchenko stripped two key figures in his poisoning of honorary rank Monday, taking way away their benefits and prestigious titles.Yushchenko, who was an opposition leader at the ...
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Poison
Poison and Antidote Actions
Toxic Substance
Poisons and Toxins
Predator poison under review
