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Ukraine opposition leader 'poisoned'
Robert Koch
Posted Sun, 12 Dec 2004
Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential hopeful Viktor Yushchenko was the victim of dioxin poisoning, his doctor in Vienna disclosed Saturday, adding that he suspected foul play.
"There is no doubt about the fact that the disease has been caused by a case of poisoning by dioxin," said Dr Michael Zimpfer, the medical chief of Vienna's Rudolfinerhaus clinic.
"We have found levels of dioxin in the body caused by oral ingestion," he told a news conference at the private clinic. "We suspect a cause triggered by a third party."
The findings follow three months of speculation about an ailment that struck Yushchenko on September 6, leaving him in pain and barely recognisable with a severely disfigured face as he tries to win the Ukraine's bitterly-contested presidency.
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