There was a heartbreaking story in the Boston Globe this morning. A 4  
month old baby died of arsenic poisoning when his formula bottle was  
accidentally filled with arsenic laced water at a party. The host  
thought it was spring water.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/09/20/ 
case_of_babys_arsenic_death_brings_wrenching_testimony/



> LAWRENCE -- As seconds became minutes, and as each minute brought  
> his 4-month-old son, Benjamin, closer to death, Douglas Glynn drove  
> frantically between the hospital in Beverly, where Benjamin was  
> vomiting blood, and the Nahant home of a business client, where  
> doctors suspected that Benjamin had drunk the substance that had  
> poisoned him.
>
> When Glynn brought the jug of clear liquid to the emergency room, a  
> doctor discovered to her horror that a warning label taped to the  
> handle indicated that the liquid contained dangerous levels of  
> arsenic.
>
> ...
>
> Glynn, a financial adviser who said he and his wife, Sonja, now  
> have a second daughter named Zoe, testified that the couple arrived  
> at Pitsas' home at about 5 p.m. that Saturday and sought water so  
> they could make baby formula for Benjamin and give Morgan a drink.


Naomi Bar-Yam



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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
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Researcher, Writer, Educator
in Maternal and Child Health
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