A disturbing trend is emerging after several Black women shared their horrifying experiences with poisoned napkins on social media.
It started with a Houston woman named Erin Mims. Mims shared her experience with a napkin she found lying on a car door handle after leaving a restaurant with her husband.
In her video, she says she removed her napkin with her fingertips, washed her hands immediately afterwards, and before she knew it, she started experiencing symptoms that led to her hospitalization.
Viral video of poison napkins leads to countless black women about to have similar experiences
Since that viral video, countless other women have shared similar experiences, including an Atlanta woman named Laysha White who recently found a suspicious piece of paper stuck to the trunk of her tree. .
In this episode of TSR Investigates, we’ll speak directly to Mark Winter… executive director of the Southeast Houston Poison Center to see what insights he can provide.
Are black women being specifically targeted? If so, what should women do to stay safe? The Shadow Room investigates…
Erin Mims had a terrible birthday this year, when she was hospitalized after being poisoned by an unknown substance placed on a napkin inside the door handle of her car.
She used her fingertips to remove the napkin and said within minutes she felt symptoms, chest tightness, heart palpitations, hot flashes…
“Within five minutes my whole arm started tingling and numb, then I couldn’t breathe, started hot flashes, my chest hurt, my heart beat really fast,” Mims told the local Fox affiliate. in Houston.
Urine tests, blood tests, CAT scans confusingly, countless other black women will continue with similar stories
Doctors have conducted urine tests, blood tests and even CAT scans, and the exact source of her poisoning remains inconclusive.
However, according to the doctors, she still suffered from “acute poisoning of a substance of unknown origin”, but what was frightening were the similar stories that followed.
Countless other Black women began to tell stories of being poisoned by mysterious chemicals.
Laysha White filmed a similar video and posted it on social media, showing the type of napkin used when she was also hospitalized after experiencing symptoms of poisoning.
Another woman spins a $5 bill on the sidewalk in Bay Point California, which has been coated with a similar chemical and left in front of an ATM. She warned her followers that people were using money to poison Black women.
“So you would know that people are trying to poison people with money, right?” she said in the video. “Don’t fall for it.”
Authorities are confused by poisoning cases, many chemicals are introduced because of the potential to cause poisoning
Both the DEA and the Houston Police Department were baffled by the Mims case, which was not as conclusive as the number of similar stories that followed.
Several possibilities have been raised about what the chemicals might be. Fentanyl is a fast-acting powder that can be lethal and can be absorbed through the skin.
Others suggested it could be some kind of weed, or even an insecticide that was banned in the 1980s. One case involved a chemical that should only be used by military personnel. approach.
Detractors have noted Mims’ admission to being a germ, and suggested that it could have been a panic attack.
Houston Poison Control Center CEO speaks out on explosion of poisoning cases
The Shade Room spoke to Mark Winter, executive director of the Southeast Houston Poison Center, who acknowledges that there are substances that can be “neutralized within minutes of exposure.”
Winter adds that there are very few chemicals that can cause immediate symptoms of poisoning, nor does it suggest that it could be prompted by a panic attack, saying that “the mind is something powerful.”
“You can believe you’re exposed and believe you’re having a problem, and the more you think about it, the worse it gets,” says Winter.
Criminal cases still unsolved: “If you notice something in your car, drive to the police station”
However, White said she wouldn’t be too comfortable, and warned any Black women exposed to such sketchy materials to go to the hospital immediately, even if symptoms could be mental.
“If you notice something in your car, drive to the police station,” White said. “You don’t know who is following you or following you.”
Winter goes on to say that the human body can react very differently to different substances, but it’s the best way to stay aware of your surroundings.
Meanwhile, any form of criminal investigation remains unresolved in the Mims and White cases.
Have you ever encountered a similar case?
