Update : http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/04/02/astar-scholar-charged-for-poisoning-labmates-drinks/
Personal comment : It's a tragedy that Ouyang Xiangyu didn't seek
medical psychiatric help sooner. Now the rest of her highly
promising life (after she completes her prison jail term in the
USA) is completely ruined, whether she is in USA, Singapore or
China. Fortunately her victims did not die, but nonetheless
paraformaldehyde is highly carcinogenic, and her victims (including
herself, self-poisoned on several occasions) will suffer an
increased risk of cancer in the future.
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A*Star sponsors China girl (conferred Singaporean citizenship as
part of scholarship entitlement) to US Uni, who then gets arrested
for poisoning her fellow Uni colleagues with
paraformaldehyde.
http://www.vice.com/read/a-stanford-medical-school-student-was-arrested-for-poisoning-her-classmates-water-bottles-331
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 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 that they were being intentionally poisoned by
the "awkward and quiet" second-year Stanford Medical School student
in the lab, Ouyang Xiangyu, who is now being charged with four
felony counts of poisoning.
The 26-year-old scientist had come to Stanford's Cancer Biology
program from the prestigious Agency for Science, Technology, and
Research (A-STAR) program in Singapore.
Full article :
http://www.vice.com/read/a-stanford-medical-school-student-was-arrested-for-poisoning-her-classmates-water-bottles-331