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He had previously spent months in Germany recovering from what German doctors said was poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent, Novichok.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 17, 2025

The court heard Parker believed his mum was poisoning his food and that cameras had been installed in the house to watch him.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

“They discovered that there was … shrapnel that was poisoning my blood,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2023

The news came as a shock: Lead, lurking somewhere in Nalleli Garrido's home, was poisoning her 1-year-old son.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2023

She couldn’t decide which was more terrifying - the impending destruction of New Rome, or the way Octavian was poisoning the legion from the inside.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan