BACKGROUND Poisoning is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Nepal and also a major public health problem worldwide. A thorough review of the risk factors helps to decrease the incidence and mortality. The study evaluates the cases admitted in Dhulikhel Hospital, Kavre, Various parameters like age, sex, marital status, time of ingestion, month of occurrence, agent responsible...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Data on poisoning with MCPA (4-chloro-2-methyl-phenoxyacetic acid) are limited to 6 case reports. Our objective is to describe outcomes from intentional self-poisoning with MCPA in a prospective case series of 181 patients presenting to hospitals in Sri Lanka. METHODS Patient information was collected by on-site study physicians as part of an ongoing prospective cohort study o...

The toxicity of m-dinitrobenzene has been known for about 85 years (Starkow, 1871). The first clinical cases of poisoning to be reported in the literature were in workers engaged in the production or handling of the explosive roburite (Nieden, 1888; Ross, 1889; Prosser White, 1889; Rohl, 1890 Spurgin, 1891), or that of aniline (Schr6der and Strassmann, 1891), or were due to other occupational h...

The recent surge in interest in the utilisation of transition metal dichalcogenides for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), as well as the long-standing problem of sulfur poisoning suffered by the established Pt HER electrocatalyst, motivated us to examine the impacts of sulfur poisoning on both emergent and current electrocatalysts. Through a comparative study between MoS2 and Pt/C on the e...

OBJECTIVES To carry out time series analyses of hospital admissions for poisoning between 1995-2008 in all districts in Sri Lanka to identify trends and geographical variations in the substances used in poisoning. METHODS Data of hospital admissions from 1995-2008 due to poisoning were obtained from the Annual Health Bulletins published by the Ministry of Health. Data were converted to annual...

BACKGROUND Lead is a toxic element of the environment which leads to major complications once it enters the blood stream, affecting multiple organs and systems of the body. METHODS We present the case of a 16-year-old girl, diagnosed with lead poisoning after occupational exposure due to the fact that the girl was actively involved in the family's pottery business.History revealed that the gi...

Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning is a stepping stone towards advanced (cyber) attacks. DNS cache poisoning can be used to monitor users’ activities for censorship, to distribute malware and spam and to subvert correctness and availability of Internet clients and services. Currently, the DNS infrastructure relies on challengeresponse defences against attacks by (the common) off-path adve...

Unintentional poisoning is the most common challenge during childhood age. Among them organophosphate, commonly used insecticide agent related to in children. Organophosphate causes up 25% of mortality worldwide. The present article discusses case a 3 year old child with accidental intake organophosphate revealing symptoms experienced by patient and different treatment modalities employed its o...

Introduction Organophosphate (OP) insecticides are commonly used in veterinary practice and public health (Coggon 2002; Jaga & Dharmani 2003; Wilson 2005). They induce poisoning in mammals and avian species by irreversible inhibition of cholinesterase (ChE) activity at the nerve terminals and neuromuscular junctions causing accumulation of acetylcholine. As a result of ChE inhibition, signs of ...

BACKGROUND To investigate the phenomenon of alcohol poisoning in Russia and the countries in the European part of the former Soviet Union in the period 1970-2002. METHODS Four time points were chosen spanning the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Data relating to alcohol poisoning deaths were collected at each point for the countries in the region-Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russi...