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Deaths – both accidental and intentional – have resulted from overdose of colchicine. [26] Typical side effects of moderate doses may include gastrointestinal upset, diarrhea, and neutropenia. [22] High doses can also damage bone marrow, lead to anemia, and cause hair loss.
Colchicine poisoning has been compared to arsenic poisoning; symptoms typically start two to five hours after a toxic dose has been ingested but may take up to 24 hours to appear, and include burning in the mouth and throat, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and kidney failure. Onset of multiple-system organ failure may occur within 24 ...
This is a list of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll, caused by infectious disease, heavy metals, chemical contamination, or from natural toxins, such as those found in poisonous mushrooms. Before modern microbiology, foodbourne illness was not understood, and, from the mid 1800s to early-mid 1900s, was perceived as ptomaine poisoning ...
Kaitlyn Conley, 23, is accused of using the anti-inflammatory drug colchicine to poison the owner of the medical practice she worked at. Employee charged with murder in death of New York ...
The United States has the highest rate of drug overdose deaths out of 30 countries, according to a report from the health nonprofit the Commonwealth Fund. Overdose deaths in the U.S. dipped ...
Jamestown colonists (1607–1610); standard historical accounts suggest many early colonists died of starvation, but the possibility of arsenic poisoning by rat poison (or of death by bubonic plague) has also been reported [5] Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (d. 1612) Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637)
― A Hepatitis A outbreak traced to a Beaver County restaurant 20 years ago may have led to many of the national food safety guidelines implemented in the last several years. In 2003, Chi-Chi's ...
After Mary Yoder's autopsy shows the cause of death as colchicine poisoning, the investigation into her suspicious death becomes a homicide case. Digital forensics are used to tie Internet searches and an anonymous type-written letter to an unlikely suspect - her office administrator who was her son's ex-girlfriend.