The New York Times reports that a Moroccan woman who took a piece of her dead husband's intestine on a flight to their home in Austria was carrying the sample because she suspected that he had been poisoned and she wanted European doctors to examine it.
The woman packed the four-inch piece in her checked baggage on a flight to the southern Austrian city of Graz, where she and her husband had been living for eight years. She acted on the advice of a doctor in Marrakesh who shared her suspicion that her husband had been poisoned at a meal the couple ate while visiting his relatives. The woman was travelling through Graz airport in the south of Austria but was reportedly stopped by officials after they observed her behaving suspiciously.
Officers determined that the woman had violated no Austrian laws by bringing the sample into the country. A Moroccan doctor extracted the piece of intestine and apparently helped pack it in formaldehyde and in thick plastic containers. Gerald Höfler, who leads the pathology institute in Graz where the intestine is being examined, described the packaging as very professional. "I would imagine that it was done by a pathologist," Höfler said. "It was absolutely secure, triple wrapped, according to European Union norms."
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Friday September 30 2016, @12:41AM
* now we all know about her personal medical tragedy
How is murder a medical tragedy?
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Friday September 30 2016, @03:58AM
How is murder a medical tragedy?
Poisoning and death are both medical conditions.
Death of a loved one, especially under suspicious circumstances, is tragic.
In the U.S. disclosing both the name of the patient and the details of the medical procedure being requested would be illegal; presumably there are medical privacy rules in Austria as well, since the article was very careful to not disclose the woman's identity. I'd say that's personal as well.
I chose the words carefully.
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