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Thallium was an effective murder weapon before its effects became understood and an antidote (Prussian blue) was discovered. [7] Thallium is often imported for products like optical lenses and electronics.
Of the more than 1,500 responses which Zhu Ling's friends received, roughly one-third proposed that she was suffering from thallium poisoning, the common antidote for which is Prussian blue. Due to lack of internet infrastructure, Dr. Li Xin, a Chinese student at UCLA and Dr. John W. Aldis from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing collaborated to ...
Prussian blue, also known as potassium ferric hexacyanoferrate, is used as a medication to treat thallium poisoning or radioactive caesium poisoning. [1] [2] For thallium it may be used in addition to gastric lavage, activated charcoal, forced diuresis, and hemodialysis. [3] [4] It is given by mouth or nasogastric tube.
Following the poisoning, police had investigated one of Zhu’s roommates, Sun Wei, but subsequently cleared her as a suspect, according to previous reporting from state news agency Xinhua.
Thallium and its compounds are extremely toxic, with numerous recorded cases of fatal thallium poisoning. [69] [70] The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set the legal limit (permissible exposure limit) for thallium exposure in the workplace as 0.1 mg/m 2 skin exposure over an eight-hour workday.
The incident with Litvinenko has also attracted comparisons to the poisoning by radioactive (unconfirmed) thallium of KGB defector Nikolay Khokhlov and journalist Shchekochikhin of Novaya Gazeta (the Novaya Gazeta interview with the former, coincidentally, prepared by Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was later found shot to death in ...
“This antidote will limit damage from gas poisoning caused by sudden fires and can be tested for the treatment of various symptoms caused by gas poisoning,” study co-author Hiroaki Kitagishi ...
Silver poisoning, [30] like lithium poisoning, arises from misapplication of medications. A dramatic symptom of "argyria" is that the skin turns blue or bluish-grey. [31] Thallium poisoning has been observed on several occasions, and it is well known that thallium compounds are highly toxic. Nonetheless, incidents of thallium poisoning are few ...