Alexander Litvinenko, a former Colonel in the KGB, is in serious condition in a London hospital after having ingested a potentially lethal dose of what is believed to be thallium. Litvinenko has been an outspoken critic of Russian President Putin.
Thallium is a tasteless, odorless poison found in rat poisons and insecticides; according to a toxicologist interviewed for the story,
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"... [it] only takes about a gram - you know, a large pinch of salt like in your food - to kill you."
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