The World - News from Sept. 26, 1985
A Tokyo college student became ill after drinking a tainted soft drink, the latest victim of a series of poisonings that have killed five in Japan. Tatsuo Teramoto, 22, was hospitalized with slight stomach and tongue burns. Police said the health drink he bought from a vending machine contained sulfur and calcium. The five who died were poisoned by drinks tainted with the herbicide paraquat.
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