李家安健康園地 - WRETCH

李家安健康園地 - WRETCH

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Dioxin poisoning

The campaign was often bitter and violent. Yushchenko became seriously ill in early September 2004. He was flown to Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus clinic for treatment and diagnosed with acute pancreatitis, accompanied by interstitial edematous changes, due to a serious viral infection and chemical substances that are not normally found in food products. Yushchenko claimed such poisoning to be the work of government agents. After the illness, his face became heavily disfigured: grossly jaundiced, bloated, and pockmarked.

After seeing Yushchenko's deformed face on the evening news, the Dutch toxicologist Bram Brouwer contacted the Rudolfinerhaus to test some of Yushchenko's blood at the Free University of Amsterdam for dioxin. According to Dr. Michael Zimpfer, president of the Rudolfinerhaus, these tests provided conclusive evidence that Yushchenko's condition resulted from high concentrations of dioxin, most likely orally administered. This hypothesis has also been suggested by British toxicologist Prof John Henry of St Mary's Hospital in London because the marks on Yushchenko's face were chloracne, a characteristic symptom of dioxin poisoning. Other scientists suggested that the illness might have been the result of rosacea but this theory failed to account for the severe internal medical problems that Yushchenko suffered. On December 11, Austrian doctors confirmed Yushchenko had been poisoned with TCDD dioxin, and had more than 1,000 times (other sources said 6,000 times) the usual concentration in his body.^[5] This was the second highest dioxin level ever measured in a human. Yushchenko's chief of staff Oleg Ribachuk suggested that the poison used was a mycotoxin called T-2, also known as "Yellow Rain", a Soviet-era substance reputedly used in Afghanistan as a chemical weapon.

Yushchenko has linked the poisoning to a dinner with a group of senior Ukrainian officials, including the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ihor Smeshko, on the evening before Yushchenko fell ill. In connection to that, theories of links to the Russian FSB arose. This hypothesis is disputed by some toxicologists, who claim that symptoms of dioxin poisoning usually take 3-14 days to appear— Prof John Henry, professor of accident and emergency medicine at St Mary's Hospital in London, said "a few months after swallowing" or other contact^[6] —and experiencing them a few hours after ingesting the poison would be unusual, though, given the extremely high concentration of dioxin found in his system, not impossible.

On March 27, 2008, the host of the first of the two dinners Yushchenko visited September 5, 2004, businessman Vladimir Shulga, 51, died of a heart attack in the waiting hall of the Shevchenko district militia office in Kiev.^[7]

Yushchenko said he was poisoned by three waiters who acted like Andrei Lugovoi (a man accused of Alexander Litvinenko poisoning). The waiters fled to Russia.^[8]