Reportedly, a rival pancake manufacturer intentionally spiked the pancakes eaten by the victims. Scott Whitlow, DO, an emergency physician at Kaweah Delta Health Care in Visalia, CA and colleagues, those include an incident in 2004 when 74 people were poisoned after they ate scallion-flavored pancakes. According to an earlier report in Annals of Internal Medicine, though the rodenticide has been banned in China it is still easily obtained and has caused many intentional deaths, as well as accidental ones.Īccording to Annals authors K. The poison has a colorful history, at least in China. “Mortality was prevented in 100% of animals receiving perampanel,” Dorota Zolkowska, PhD, of the University of California at Davis and colleagues concluded. It stopped continuous convulsive activity, though it did not eliminate epileptiform discharges (periodic spikes and sharp wave activity and spike/sharp wave clusters).
The drug was administered at either 10 minutes or 40 minutes after the first myoclonic twitch.
The substance is easily manufactured and is considered a potential terrorist weapon.īut in a study presented at the American Epilepsy Society 69 th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, researchers said that perampanel (Fycompa/Eisai) prevented death in lab animals exposed to tetramethylenedisulfotetramine (TETS). The poison can cause status epilepticus and death in humans and so far has no specific antidote. Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine-a rat poison so dangerous it has been banned in the US and most other nations-is still widely available in China and sometimes shows up elsewhere in immigrant communities, as it did in 2002 in New York City.
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