Phosphine gas exposure can cause symptoms including nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, thirst, chest tightness, breathing difficulty, muscle pain, chills and pulmonary congestion. A severe ...

In 1980, two children and 29 crew members aboard a grain freighter became ill. They had been exposed to phosphine – a chemical used in fumigation to kill pests in and on grain – for four days.

COPS investigating the mystery death of a British woman in Sri Lanka are now probing whether chemical exposure at her hostel may have played a role. The 24-year-old was staying at the Miracle ...

One line of inquiry is the possible impact of chemical exposure, as the adjacent room at the hostel had reportedly been fumigated with phosphine - a highly toxic pesticide - on January 30.

An untimely tragedy took the lives of two foreign women this week after they started vomiting, experienced nausea and ...