Cẩm nang của độc chất học của đại lý vũ khí hóa học. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800159-2.00023-3 301 © 20152 Elsevier Inc Tất cả các quyền.The use of cyanides for murder and suicide and accidentally use have been passably reviewed by Gee (1987). One hundred nine passengers in 1973 and 303 pilgrims in 1980 were feared killed in Paris and Riyadh, respectively, because of inhalation of HCN from smoldering plastic inside aircrafts that accidentally caught fire (Mohler, 1975; Weger, 1983). In 1985, the explosion of a Boeing 737 during take-off at Manchester, England, revealed that 20% of the 137 victims who escaped had dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide, whereas 90% had significantly elevated levels of cyanide. Similarly, short circuits in electrical wires also caused fire on ships that led to the combustion of plastic materials releasing HCN, which resulted in severe poisoning (Levine et al., 1978). The murders of two Ukrainians, Rebet (1957) and Bandera (1959), were committed by a Soviet agent in Munich using a gas pistol containing cyanide (Anders, 1963). In September 1982, seven people in Chicago died when cyanide was illicitly placed in bottles of Tylenol (acetaminophen manufactured by McNeill Consumer Products Co., Fort Washington, PA) (Wolnick et al., 1984). In 1978, 912 members of a religious sect in Port Kaituma, Guyana, committed mass suicide after consuming a grape-flavored drink laced with cyanide (Thompson et al., 1987; Sidell et al., 1997). Some other incidents of illicit cyanide use include cyanide gas–producing devices in Tokyo subway and railway station restrooms in 1995 (Okumura et al., 2003), ingestion of cyanide tablets by Michael Martin on receipt of a guilty verdict for arson in June 2012 (Davenport, 2012), and the death of Urooj Khan, a lottery winner, in Chicago in July 2012 (Keyser, 2013). The first case of illegal euthanasia in Spain was reported when a tetraplegic patient whose repeated legal requests for euthanasia were refused consumed potassium cyanide (KCN) (Blanco and Garcia, 2004).
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