Another Novichok Poisoning?

[TokyoSushi]

Just breaking news now, how awful, I wonder how on Earth it's happening?

[PurpleNailVarnish]

I just came here to post that too @grauduroi. My thoughts go out to the officer and their family.

@IrmaFayLear in my earlier post I didn't mean to imply that you were either correct or incorrect about the degradation time for Novichok. I simply meant that no-one seems to have the answers.

My (confused) understanding @RafaIsTheKingOfClay is that different formulations of Novichok do react and degrade differently. I really bloody hope that every recent incidence is as a result of the same batch.

[PerkingFaintly]

Oh no! Hope he's not too unwell – with any luck they're very alert for symptoms now they know it's another Novichok scenario.

[PerkingFaintly]

Sorry, just realise you didn't specify whether officer was male or female. Hope she/he isn't too unwell.

Will be thinking of them and their family.

[NeverTwerkNaked]

Oh no! So sorry to read that update, it must be a huge worry for everyone involved in the investigation and treatment.
Do we know how the Amesbury couple are doing now? I feel like the press would be showing more concern for them if it wasn’t for their backgrounds

[RunMummyRun68]

I'm guessing ' how they are doing' is quite confidential

Same as it was with the Skripals

Not sure what background has to do with it

[LanguidLobster]

It's getting like Noah's ark - 2 Russians, 2 vulnerable people, 2 policemen.

Press couldn't report on treatment, it's violating medical confidentiality. It must be helping in narrowing down where any active nerve agents are though.

[PerkingFaintly]

Police officer now given the all clear, thank goodness.

It's good that they're being so vigilant.

Wiltshire Police officer given all-clear over Novichok fear
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44754562

[Kursk]

So close to Porton Down, and Boscombe Down it’s not surprising that Salisbury is a hotbed of foreign agent activity.

[woman11017]

@SkyNewsBreak
Metropolitan Police has launched a murder inquiry after 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess who was exposed to nerve agent Novichok in Amesbury in Wiltshire died in hospital this evening

So sad.

[SouthWestmom]

Just saw this. How on earth did the first pair survive?

[peridito]

I wonder if she'd have had a better chance if she'd received the rapid correct treatment that the Skripals got .

[NeverTwerkNaked]

Oh no, that’s dreadfully sad. I was so badly hoping they would both pull through.

[gluteustothemaximus]

Oh Fuck. RIP Dawn

[Gingernaut]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44760875

[LanguidLobster]

That's really sad. I had a suspicion she wouldn't pull through. She has 3 children I think as well.

[OldSpeclkledHen]

That's sad news, rip Dawn

[SmileAndNod]

Very sad news tonight. I just can't fathom the whole situation at all.

[PerkingFaintly]

Ah no! I so hoped she'd be OK.

[AndhowcouldIeverrefuse]

So sad

[gluteustothemaximus]

It took 4 days (apparently) before they realised it was Novichok. That's a long time for your body to be fighting without the right medicine/help.

I hope Charlie pulls through, and can tell us what he touched and where, and then we might stand a chance of finding more pieces to this puzzle. And moreover, to make sure no one else can touch it.

[LanguidLobster]

The press have changed their tune - at first they were yapping on at her being homeless and 'haha she's gaunt and was off buying her alcohol and going through bins'. It was awful.

Now they're backtracking furiously and saying 'mother has died'. I hate the press sometimes, she's a person with loved ones, she wasn't out commiting offences to hurt people as far as I know.

[HelenaDove]

Just seen this So sad RIP Dawn

[PurpleNailVarnish]

Poor, poor woman. RIP.

[HelenaDove]

Lobster the "othering" of homeless people fucking pisses me off too.

[LanguidLobster]

@Helena it fucking pisses me off too!

Poor woman was poisoned. Don't know what's going on, it's mad