Yushchenko Was Poisoned!

Via Chad Evans at In The Bullpen comes this report.

Ukraine's opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned in an attempt to kill him during election campaigning in September, a British daily reported today, quoting the doctor who oversaw his treatment.

Doctors at Viennas Rudolfinerhaus clinic are within days of identifying the substance that left Mr Yushchenko's face disfigured with cysts and lesions, Doctor Nikolai Korpan was quoted as saying in The Times.

Specialists in Britain, the United States and France had helped to establish that it was a biological agent, a chemical agent or, most likely, a rare poison that struck him down in the run-up to the presidential election, he said.

Yushchenko had previously stated that "he would soon reveal proof that his opponents had tried to assassinate him." Thankfully, it seems we now have a definitive answer to the dramatic change in Yushchenko's appearance over the last few months. Bill at INDC Journal opines that John Edwards would have quit running had he experienced a similar cosmetic change. I agree.

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