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Wednesday, December 15, 2004Brouwer said the highest dose recorded so far was in a woman in Vienna, who was intentionally poisoned with dioxin in the mid-1990s. Tests showed her blood had 144,000 units per gram of fat, and she survived. 'We don't actually know what the lethal dose is. The only thing we do know is there's a woman who had an even higher dose, who didn't die, so it must be higher than that,' Brouwer said. The woman, who was among five people deliberately poisoned at a textile institute in 1997, was sick for two years and was in and out of hospital with various symptoms, said Schecter, who was involved in tracking the case. A second woman fell ill from the poisoning, but the other three people had no symptoms at all. It would not be difficult to deliver the dose Yushchenko received, experts say. If the dioxin he ingested is the most hazardous type, tetrachlorodibenzoparadioxin, or TCDD, it would take only a drop or two, or a tiny amount of powder mixed in food, to poison him. Maybe it was the soup. posted by Sydney on 12/15/2004 08:13:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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