Near-fatal poisoning after ricin injection - Bucaretchi F, Borrasca-Fernandes CF, Prado CC, Lanaro R, Costa JL, Petroni OM, Giraldi T, Blotta MHSL, Justo-Junior AS, Sousa NL, Arag ão FJL, De Capitani EM, Hyslop S.

OBJECTIVE: To report a near-fatal poisoning after intentional injection of ricin from a castor bean (Ricinus communis) extract.Case report: A 21 year-old man self-injected ∼3 mL of a castor bean extract intramuscularly and subcutaneously in the left an...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Poisoning Source Type: news