Experts: Polonium is deadly if ingested
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Polonium is lethal when swallowed, with the power to destroy the human body's DNA. But because it doesn't penetrate the skin, it is easy to transport &#151; even across national borders.
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20 November 2004 -- A new study says more than 800 people in northern Sweden may have cancer as a result of the fallout over the region from the Chornobyl nuclear accident in 1986.
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Polonium-210 &#151; the radioactive substance that killed a former Russian spy in London &#151; is one of the world's rarest elements, first discovered in the 19th century by scientists Marie and Pierre Curie.
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LONDON -- The wife of a former KGB agent fatally poisoned in Britain and the Italian security expert he met the day he fell ill both showed traces of the same radioactive substance found in the dead man's body, friends and officials said yesterday.
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The Food and Drug Administration says a rocket fuel component contaminates nearly 94 percent of the milk and lettuce samples surveyed. The compound is suspected of having nasty effects in humans. By Amit Asaravala.
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The hospital treating a former Russian spy said Tuesday radioactive substances might have been used in the poisoning of Col.Comment
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NEW YORK  - Illicit injections of liquid silicone for cosmetic purposes can be fatal, often leading to pulmonary embolism and severe respiratory failure, Dr. Carlos S. Restrepo told the Radiology Society of North America's annual meeting in Chicago where he shared imaging findings from a series of 44 patients.
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LONDON -- An Italian security consultant who tested positive for traces of the same radioactive substance that was found in the body of a fatally poisoned former KGB spy has not shown any signs of illness, doctors said yesterday. Mario Scaramella met with former Russian agent and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko at a London sushi bar Nov. 1. Later that ...
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NEW YORK  - Heavy drinking, including alcohol-based liquids not meant to be ingested, such as cologne or cleansers, caused nearly half of all deaths among working-age men living in Izhevsk, Russia, between 2003 and 2005, investigators report in The Lancet.
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British scientists probing the death of Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday a second man had been poisoned by the same radiation that killed the former Russian spy.
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Litvinenko, shown before his illness, died Thursday. WHAT IS POLONIUM-210? Polonium-210 is one of the world's rarest elements.Comment
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Tests on three more London hotel workers  have shown they were exposed to low levels of polonium 210, the  radioactive poison that killed former Russian agent Alexander  Litvinenko, health authorities said on Tuesday.
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The signs say "KEEP OUT" and warn of radiation contamination, but the mushroom-pickers trudge right past them carrying their pails. Eighteen years after the reactor at Chernobyl in neighboring Ukraine exploded, spewing a cloud of radiation that blew north and contaminated 22 percent of this ex-Soviet republic, activists warn of a new threat facing Belarusians: the longing to return to normal life.
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To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here Yes, thereâs only been story in the news this week. Rogue Russian agents have apparently been racing around the UK, knocking off ex-KGB spies, and endangering sushi chefs, flight attendants and Italian Academics, using rare radioactive isotopes. The fact that it was Polonium 210 that was used to permanently shut-up former KGB man Alexander Litvinenko was taken as proof of Russian state involvement. Only past poison experts such as the KGB had access to such a devastating material, it was reasoned. Well, only them and anyone with a web connection, a credit card and the web address for United Nuclear. So, beware come office party season. If the cocktails look a little more lurid than usual, someone may well be settling scores.â¦
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Science & environment: Food poisoning bacteria become super-virulent in space, according to a study on the shuttle Atlantis.
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LONDON/ROME  - An Italian contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said he believed both were targeted with a radioactive substance because of secrets they shared.
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LONDON -- Police said four people in Germany were hospitalized Monday after  showing signs that they may be contaminated by polonium-210, the poison that killed former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko. All four are connected to Dmitry Kovtun, a Russian businessman who met Litvinenko...