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The Quiet Killer

Haiku — CO-Poisoning

cloaked odorless me,
slyly tortures, depletes you,
quietly kills you.

This quiet killer kills nearly 500 people in the US and 60 people in the UK yearly. From 1979 to 1988, carbon monoxide poisoning caused more than 56,000 deaths in the United States, from which more than 25,000 were suicides. That means carbon monoxide killed…