New Zealand eruption of the volcano: wounded visitors with serious skin and lung burns

Tourists wounded in the eruption of the White Island / Whakaari volcano in New Zealand have burnt lungs by inhaling sulfur dioxide and volcanic ash, with deep-tissue injuries "extremely severe," some to over half of their bodies, a senior emergency doctor said.

When patients came from Whakatane and Tauranga hospitals on Monday, Australasian College of Emergency Medicine chief Dr. John Bonning was employed in the emergency d....