Huang Yang (poisoning victim)

Huang Yang (, 1985 – April 16, 2013) was a Chinese student who was the victim of N-Nitrosodimethylamine poisoning in Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Yang died of poisoning in Zhongshan Hospital after doctors tried to diagnose his condition, but failed to identify the source of his poisoning until after Yang had passed. The only suspect in the case is Yang's roommate at the time, Lin Senhao, after police found the water cooler in their shared dormitory to contain lethal traces of N-Nitrosodimethylamine.

Timelines
On the morning of 1 April 2013, Huang Yang drank water from water dispenser in his dormitory, and found the taste was strange. He thought the water went bad at first, drained the water and washed the bottle. At about 10:00, Huang started to have nausea, vomiting and fever, and was sent to Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University. The doctor firstly treated Huang as normal gastroenteritis.

2 April 2013, his symptoms lasted, at 21:00 Huang went to A&E. Essay result showed that his liver function had been damaged.

3 April 2013, Huang's condition deteriorated, as his rate of blood platelet leves fell, and he was sent to the ICU. At this point, doctors believed he was poisoned, but could not identify the source, rendering them unable to treat Yang for the poisoning.

About 5 April 2013, Huang's nose first bleeded in the poisoning case.

8 April 2013, Huang fell unconscious, but the poison still had not been detected.

11 April 2013, the police reported that poison had been detected from left water in the dispenser.

11 April 2013, Huang was announced to be in critical condition.

On the afternoon of 13 April 2013, Huang's pupils of his eyes dilated.

14 April 2013, Huang's EEG fell flat. He could not breathe by himself due to pulmonary fibrosis.

15:23 on 16 April 2013, Zhongshan Hospital pronounced that Huang died.

Suspect
Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau announced that they requested Huangpu People's Procuratorate on 20 April to arrest Lin Senhao as a suspect.

Social impact
After the case, the media released a great deal of Senhao's personal information as well as details of poisoning, though he had not been convicted or listed as a suspect that time. Chinese media came under some criticism for releasing the information of the suspect, as well as information on the case, before Senhao had even been named as a suspect by police officials.

There are reports that some of the colleages at Fudan University had supervision loopholes for toxic chemicals. Vice Minister of Propaganda of Fudan University asserted that the school did investigations, said the management was sound. They came under scrutiny of the media for their sciences department allowing easy access to toxic chemicals by students, although their press team assured that Senhao had not been given the chemicals by any Fudan University faculty.