Case Study
Seven Mystery Deaths
Omesh Khemai
Biology 1
Professor Depass
10.28.14
Case Study
The first was a 12-year-old girl. Her parents said that she was awake in the middle of the night complaining of a stuffy nose and sore throat. They gave her an extra strength Tylenol and sent her back to bed. At 7am the next morning, the parents discovered that the girl had collapsed on the bathroom floor. An ambulance rushed the girl to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead. That same day, paramedics found the second victim unconscious on his kitchen floor after what they thought was an apparent heart attack. Sadly, the victim’s brother and fiancée also collapsed later that night while the family gathered to mourn his passing. Both had taken Tylenol to help them cope with their loss shortly before collapsing; neither survived. In the next four days, four other similar deaths were reported, all in the same neighborhood and all with similar symptoms.
In this case we investigated seven cases where the victims died within several hours of showing symptoms. They exhibited several symptoms like dizziness and vomiting. All of the seven individuals are connected because most of them have taken Tylenol before collapsing, they are all from the same neighborhood and most of them share the same symptoms. There are many questions that I would ask, I would ask where they have been for the past few days, what they have had to eat and what places have they all been. In my opinion many of them shared the same symptoms and took the same drugs, have the same symptoms and they live close enough for it not to be considered it to be random.
The autopsy showed massive cell death in the tissues of various organs in the victims. The cells died because cellular respiration was interrupted in the mitochondria of the patients. The mitochondria were unable to use oxygen and failed to make ATP. Therefor energy was not created to carry out other functions in the cells. Energy
Omesh Khemai
Biology 1
Professor Depass
10.28.14
Case Study
The first was a 12-year-old girl. Her parents said that she was awake in the middle of the night complaining of a stuffy nose and sore throat. They gave her an extra strength Tylenol and sent her back to bed. At 7am the next morning, the parents discovered that the girl had collapsed on the bathroom floor. An ambulance rushed the girl to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead. That same day, paramedics found the second victim unconscious on his kitchen floor after what they thought was an apparent heart attack. Sadly, the victim’s brother and fiancée also collapsed later that night while the family gathered to mourn his passing. Both had taken Tylenol to help them cope with their loss shortly before collapsing; neither survived. In the next four days, four other similar deaths were reported, all in the same neighborhood and all with similar symptoms.
In this case we investigated seven cases where the victims died within several hours of showing symptoms. They exhibited several symptoms like dizziness and vomiting. All of the seven individuals are connected because most of them have taken Tylenol before collapsing, they are all from the same neighborhood and most of them share the same symptoms. There are many questions that I would ask, I would ask where they have been for the past few days, what they have had to eat and what places have they all been. In my opinion many of them shared the same symptoms and took the same drugs, have the same symptoms and they live close enough for it not to be considered it to be random.
The autopsy showed massive cell death in the tissues of various organs in the victims. The cells died because cellular respiration was interrupted in the mitochondria of the patients. The mitochondria were unable to use oxygen and failed to make ATP. Therefor energy was not created to carry out other functions in the cells. Energy