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Mounting Poisonings, Blindness, Deaths as Toxic Hand Sanitizers Flood Market

posted by martyb on Thursday July 30 2020, @03:25AM   
from the race-to-the-bottom dept.

Freeman writes:

Mounting poisonings, blindness, deaths as toxic hand sanitizers flood market

The Food and Drug Administration is renewing warnings this week of dangerous hand sanitizers as it continues to find products that contain toxic methanol—a poisonous alcohol that can cause systemic effects, blindness, and death.

The agency's growing "do-not-use list" of dangerous sanitizers now includes 87 products. And with the mounting tally, the FDA also says there are rising reports from state health departments and poison control centers of injuries and deaths.

"We remain extremely concerned about the potential serious risks of alcohol-based hand sanitizers containing methanol," said FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn in a statement.

Previously:
Toxic Hand Sanitizers Have Blinded and Killed Adults and Children, FDA Warns
Toxic Methanol that Causes Blindness Found in Hand Sanitizers, FDA Warns

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• Re:The irony Re:The irony (Score: 2, Disagree) by jasassin on Thursday July 30 2020, @05:54AM (3 children)

  by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Thursday July 30 2020, @05:54AM (#1028504) Homepage Journal

  150,000 dead.

  Fear-mongering?

  The first [nbcnews.com] corona death was in February.

  Over 430,300 people die each year from homicide [ourworldindata.org].

  Wait until February of next year to make a comparison. Fear-mongering may be a valid term, if you think about a quarantine to prevent murder. Human... virus... arguably the same thing.

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• Re:The irony (Score: 4, Informative) by Booga1 on Thursday July 30 2020, @06:12AM

  by Booga1 (6333) on Thursday July 30 2020, @06:12AM (#1028508)

  Yeah, but "homicide" doesn't typically follow your kids to grandma's house when they visit.
  Though in one aspect, you may be right about the virus being used for homicide: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/22/tributes-paid-to-cab-driver-who-died-of-covid-19-after-being-spat-at [theguardian.com]

  Trevor Belle, 61, died in hospital last month after testing positive for coronavirus. Weeks earlier, his family say, he was spat at by a passenger who refused to pay £9 and told him: “I’ve got the coronavirus – and now you’ve got it, too.”

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• Re:The irony (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @09:07AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @09:07AM (#1028530)

  Yeah, homicide looks worse than coronavirus when you compare WORLD homicides to US covid deaths. World homicides are around the number you cite. US homicides are around 20,000, according to the CDC. World coronavirus deaths are around 668,000 and U.S. Coronavirus deaths are around 153,000. Also note that you are comparing a whole year for homicides to less than a year for COVID-19 to be a pandemic and it is much easier to count homicides than covid deaths in much of the world. No matter how you cut it, world-wide or U.S.-centric, coronavirus is a much larger problem than homicides.

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• Re:The irony (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @06:31PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2020, @06:31PM (#1028825)

  There were also 600,000 Americans killed in the civil war, over 4 years making it the bloodiest war (for Americans) in our history.

  Currently, Covid is outpacing it at 150,000 in 0.5 years.

  MAGA?

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