Source of Article In Tokyo, Japan, about 54 people were sick by toxic fumes at a hospital in southern Japan. It was said that a man vomited after drinking pesticide to commit suicide. The 34 year old man later died while the people who were affected by the fumes were progressing favorably. 31 of the people who were affected were doctors and staffs at the hospital in Kumamoto. The liquid pesticide that the man swallowed was identified as chloropicirin which was used to make tear gas during WWI and causes tears and vomiting. The hospital's emergency center was closed for about 12 hours because of the fumes that made many people sick. This type of suicide was the most recent because there have been cases of suicide using detergent and bath salts.
I found this article pretty intriguing because it was said that these types of suicide were influenced by an online suicide page. There have been over 30,000 suicides similar to this one and it was all located in Japan. Going back to the article, the man who died used a pesticide which contained chloropicirin which is also found in dioxin which was also found in Agent Orange that was used in the Vietnam War. Surprisingly the fumes only made people sick and it didn't have the same reaction as Agent Orange had to Vietnam.
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