poisoning
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It comes after the UK Health Security Agency declared a national outbreak of salmonella food poisoning after one person died and hundreds more fell ill.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Obviously, I don’t want a bajillion data centers poisoning the earth,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
More than a third of those affected - some babies and others as old as 90 - have needed hospital care, with two developing serious blood poisoning.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The staff’s “rebellion,” Ms. Rogoyska tells us, lay “not in poisoning the Germans’ soup but in keeping something hidden from their masters, right under their noses: the finest wine, and perhaps a few men, too.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Even the physicians themselves may be in some danger, unless they wear rubber gloves in handling the victims of poisoning.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
The Incline Village General Improvement District, which owns and manages the residents-only beach where the poisonings took place, has put up another $25,000 and installed additional cameras around the trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
They were protesting a fuel price hike and a free school meals programme that was blighted by mass food poisonings and corruption claims.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Campbell had suspected Low of "planting" items which were allegedly found during a raid on his then-home on the estate after alleged bird poisonings.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
During the state’s last major spate of poisonings in 2016, 14 cases were reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
But these poisonings from the agua mala came quickly and struck like a whiplash.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
