A Stanford Medical School Student Was Arrested for Poisoning Her Classmates' Water Bottles | VICE
A Stanford Medical School Student Was Arrested for Poisoning Her Classmates' Water Bottles | VICE Thursday April 2 nd , 2015 at 1:52 PM VICE RSS Feed 1 Share One day in October 2014, a graduate student researcher at Stanford University's Nusse Lab took a drink from her water bottle. According to testimony she later gave to police, the student "immediately experienced a burning sensation in her mouth and throat. Her eyes became irritated and watery. She began salivating uncontrollably. Her throat was burning so bad that she could not even swallow the water." When she smelled her water bottle, it reeked of paraformaldehyde. This wasn't the first time a member of the lab had accidentally ingested the toxic chemical. For weeks, researchers in the lab had been sniffing their water bottles before drinking, and multiple times each week, the bottles smelled strongly of paraformaldehyde. But none of the students suspected th