Dioxin Decomposition In The Yushchenko Case: Elimination Rate Faster Than Expected
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 08:28
in Health & Medicine
In 2004 the current Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko, suffered a severe case of dioxin poisoning. In order to understand how the human body reacts to remove the poison, researchers have analyzed over a hundred samples taken from the politician. They succeeded for the first time in identifying decomposition products which are created, and they also observed that when the dioxin dose is very high -- as was the case with Viktor Yushchenko -- the excretion rate is higher than expected.