Chemical security

Russian spy poisoning prompts warning for hundreds after nerve agent traces found

Hundreds of people have been told to wash their possessions as a precaution after traces of the nerve agent used to attack a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were found in a restaurant where the two were poisoned, the chief medical officer for England disclosed Sunday.
Sally Davies said that up to 500 people who have visited pubs and restaurants in the city of Salisbury should take action after former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were sickened last week, Sky News reported.
"We have now learned there has been some trace contamination by the nerve agent in both the Mill Pub and Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury," Davies said.
"I am confident this has not harmed the health of anyone who was in the Mill pub or Zizzi's."
Davies said people who visited the restaurant after 1:30 p.m. on Sunday until evening closing on Monday should "clean the clothes they wore and possessions they handled while there."
The restaurant and pub were among five locations identified as possible sources of where the nerve agent that sickened Skripal, according to Sky News.