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This is the list of extremely hazardous substances defined in Section 302 of the U.S. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. § 11002).The list can be found as an appendix to 40 CFR 355. [1]
Many gases have toxic properties, which are often assessed using the LC 50 (median lethal concentration) measure. In the United States, many of these gases have been assigned an NFPA 704 health rating of 4 (may be fatal) or 3 (may cause serious or permanent injury), and/or exposure limits (TLV, TWA/PEL, STEL, or REL) determined by the ACGIH professional association.
The primary antidote to brodifacoum poisoning is immediate administration of vitamin K 1 (dosage for humans: initially slow intravenous injections of 10–25 mg repeated at 3–6 hours until normalisation of the prothrombin time; then 10 mg orally four times daily as a "maintenance dose"). It is an extremely effective antidote, provided the ...
[10] [11] Genene Jones, homicidal nurse; Grigory Mairanovsky, received Soviet PhD degree for testing poisons on political prisoners; Stella Nickell, used cyanide-laced Excedrin to kill her husband and another woman in suburban Seattle in 1986; Charles Sobhraj, serial killer who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s
Number 10.A meteor. Humans have been lucky when it comes to avoiding sizeable meteors and mass die-offs. However, if one measuring 50-meters-wide and speeding towards Earth at roughly 9 miles per ...
Second deadliest bacterial foodborne outbreak in US. Second deadliest listeriosis outbreak. 2008: 2008 Canada listeriosis outbreak: Listeria: cold cuts: Maple Leaf Foods [9] >50: 22 [10] Deadliest foodborne outbreak in Canada. 1996 1996 Wishaw (Scotland) E. coli outbreak E. coli O157: meat: John Barr 496: 21: At the time the world's deadliest ...
If your pet has eaten a wild mushroom, the department recommends calling the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center’s 24-hour hotline at 888-426-4435 or a veterinary emergency clinic.
Here are the top 10 deadliest tornadoes to strike in the United States, according to the Storm Prediction Center. On March 18, 1925, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history, the Tri-State Tornado of ...