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These are lists of poisonings, deliberate and accidental, in chronological order by the date of death of the victim(s).They include mass poisonings, confirmed attempted poisonings, suicides, fictional poisonings and people who are known or suspected to have killed multiple people.
1982, United States. The Chicago Tylenol murders, an unsolved case of drug tampering in the Chicago area. Seven deaths were linked to the potassium cyanide poisoning, leading to a nationwide recall of Tylenol products. [6] 1984, India. The Bhopal disaster (also known as Bhopal gas tragedy): A gas leak incident which led to at least 3,787 deaths.
1947 Oregon State Hospital poisoning: scrambled eggs: sodium fluoride: United States: 467: 47: Instead of powdered milk, sodium fluoride, a poison to kill cockroaches, had been accidentally used in the cooking process 1858: 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning: candy: arsenic trioxide: England ~200: 20: Arsenic was accidentally sold as "daft".
1900 – 1900 English beer poisoning – Beer contaminated with arsenic. Traced to sugar manufactured with sulfuric acid that was naturally contaminated with arsenic from Spanish pyrites. An epidemic of 6070 cases in London, including 70 deaths [5] 1910–45 – Cadmium from mining waste contaminated rice irrigation water in Japan.
A 37-year-old female ingested the pulp of 30 castor beans in an attempt to commit suicide from ricin poisoning. Trace amounts of the toxin were later found in her residence. She was found by her husband and immediately put in intensive care for a week but did not survive. [54]
Cases of food poisoning began to be reported in the New York State area on October 18, 2012. The CDC eventually concluded this was an example of O157:H7, its code for a strain of E. coli that is noteworthy for seeming to have genes from a different species, shigella , producing an unusual toxin, though not one especially lethal to human beings.
But significantly more cases occur in parts of Africa and Asia. From 2010 to 2015 there were 3,248 cases reported worldwide, including 584 deaths, according to the World Health Organization .
In October and November 2005, 34 people in Magadan died from methanol poisoning after drinking tainted liquor. [63] In December 2016, 72 people died in a mass methanol poisoning in Irkutsk, Siberia. The poisoning was precipitated by drinking counterfeit surrogate alcohol—actually scented bath lotion that was marked as not safe for consumption ...