Suicide by Pesticide Gets Others Sick
If you want to take yourself out, hey, we don’t think it’s a good idea. Get some help. But if you’re determined to end things, try not to take a bunch of others with you. Someone should have told this to a Japanese farmer who killed himself by drinking pesticide. Yuck. While doctors tried to pump his stomach, he vomited the poison. And that released toxic fumes that made more than 50 people at the hospital sick.
He drank chloropicrin, which is apparently quite toxic – even just the fumes will give you breathing problems and eye sores. Nice.
Other patients were affected, too, including a poor pneumonia patient whose condition worsened due to the fumes.
Unfortunately for the emergency room workers, the paramedics didn’t identify the poison, so no one was wearing protective gear. We’re not sure if it was an oversight, or if they couldn’t find what he ingested. Let’s hope it wasn’t just stupidity on the part of the paramedics for not telling the hospital all of the details.
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