Poisoning

Poisoning
The administration of a poison, whether intentionally or accidentally.

Poisoning is the administration of a poison, whether intentionally or accidentally. It tends to be used on this website to refer to acute fatal events such as happened at Jonestown.

Acute v. chronic

Poisonings may be chronic, in which case lifetime exposure is important (for example to lead) or acute. They may be fatal or cause disability, or those affected may be able to make a complete recovery.

 

Examples

Page name	Start	End	Description
Flint water crisis	April 2014		A mass poisoning in Flint Michigan
Jonestown	18 November 1978	18 November 1978	The People's Temple cult, in Jonestown, lead by Jim Jones. In 1978 hundreds of members were poisoned by drinking a cyanide laced drink.

 

Poisoning victims on Wikispooks

Title	Start	End	Description
Yasser Arafat			Leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization for 35 years
Hamed Bakayoko			Ivorian Prime Minister who died suddenly, some say of poisoning.
Simón Bolívar
Rashid Buttar			US physician targeted for censorship and harassment as one of the "Disinformation Dozen" by the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the US government during the Covid deep event. Died prematurely in 2023, shortly after a CNN interview where he claimed he had been poisoned.
Imane Fadil			Photo model who revealed Silvio Berlusconi's bunga bunga sex parties. Also stated they were part of a sect that invokes the devil. Died of poisoning.
Allan Francovich			Francovich was a talented and courageous filmmaker who produced unparalleled exposés of various misdeeds by the powerful. Termed a 'charlatan' by some, a "conspiracy theorist" by others (though not by Wikipedia).
Eduardo Frei			Chilean ex-president poisoned by the secret police.
David Graham			David Graham was a dentist who became suspicious after meeting two of the "19 hijackers". He reported being first ignored and then threatened by the FBI. He compiled a large report of his investigations into why the FBI were ignoring his warnings. Poisoned.
Alexander Litvinenko			An exiled Russian spook turned whistleblower who died of polonium poisoning in London.
Albino Luciani			Pope John Paul I
Georgi Markov			A Bulgarian dissident writer who assassinated in 1978
Napoleon
Pablo Neruda			Chilean national poet and Nobel Prize winner who was poisoned by the secret police, possibly with participation of the CIA, after the 1973 coup d'état.
Paul Robeson			US artist and activist possibly poisoned by the CIA
Yuri Shchekochikhin			A member of the ill-fated Kovalev Commission who was assassinated.
Zachary Taylor			President of the United States. Poisoned.
Turgut Özal			1990s Turkish president covertly assassinated by deep state forces

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Pesticide	“Acute pesticide poisoning occurs frequently in children worldwide, and subclinical pesticide toxicity is also widespread. Clinical data suggest that acute pesticide poisoning during childhood might lead to lasting neurobehavioural deficits. Highly toxic and bioaccumulative pesticides are now banned in high-income nations, but are still used in many low-income and middle-income countries... birth cohort studies provide new evidence that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides can cause developmental neurotoxicity.”	Philippe Grandjean Philip Landrigan	March 2014

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