Yushchenko poisoning suggests plot Doctors 'clearly' see a 'third-party' role

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: December 13, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Elisabeth Rosenthal
International Herald Tribune
12-13-2004
Tests at a hospital in Vienna confirmed that Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian opposition candidate, had been poisoned with dioxin, doctors said, providing an explanation for his painful and disfiguring condition during the past three months of the presidential campaign. There was ''no doubt'' that Yushchenko's disease ''has been caused by a case of poisoning by dioxin,'' Dr. Michael Zimpfer, president of the Rudolfinerhaus Hospital, said Saturday. He said that Yushchenko's blood dioxin level was ''more than 1,000 times'' the upper ...

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