Death probe of ex-Yankee's son triggers carbon monoxide warnings from experts

Experts are speaking retired astir the imaginable dangers attached to c monoxide, arsenic authorities proceed to probe the decease of teen Miller Gardner, lad of erstwhile New York Yankees subordinate Brett Gardner.

While the origin of Miller Gardner's decease remains unconfirmed, Costa Rican Judicial Investigative Agency (OIJ) General Director Randall Zúñiga told reporters astatine a property league connected Monday that high levels of c monoxide contamination were recovered successful the Gardner family's edifice room, and that it mightiness person caused the teen's death.

"Which past leads america towards a enactment of probe successful which it seems that this idiosyncratic could person died from inhaling these precise unsafe gases," Zúñiga said.

Zúñiga said investigators who enactment connected a specialized unsafe atmospheres squad detected "high emissions of contamination of…carbon monoxide" successful the country astatine Costa Rica's Arenas Del Mar Beachfront & Rainforest Resort, which is wherever the Gardners were staying.

 Officials astatine the edifice are denying the c monoxide claims.

DEATH OF EX-YANKEE'S SON IN COSTA RICA HAS EXPERTS SOUNDING ALARM ON HEALTHY TRAVEL

"The levels successful the edifice country were non-existent and non-lethal. There was an mistake successful this archetypal reporting. As mentioned, we await for conclusive results to corroborate the origin of this unfortunate death," a edifice spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

The spokesperson besides said the country has been "closed disconnected retired of an abundance of precaution."

Miller Gardner, 14, is photographed with his father, Brett Gardner, a erstwhile New York Yankee. Miller Gardner died past period successful Costa Rica. His decease is presently being investigated. (Courtesy of New York Yankees)

Dr. Nicole Saphier, a Fox News aesculapian contributor, said nary genitor should ever person to endure the calamity of losing a child.

In respect to c monoxide, she said the state is "a silent, deadly threat."

"We often absorption connected fume alarms, but c monoxide is colorless, odorless and tin flooded a idiosyncratic earlier they adjacent recognize what's happening," Saphier told Fox News Digital.

Saphier said each household should person aggregate functioning c monoxide detectors, particularly adjacent sleeping areas.

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"When we question — whether staying astatine a hotel, Airbnb, oregon adjacent successful an RV — it’s worthy considering bringing a portable c monoxide show for added protection," she suggested.

The decease of Miller Gardner, lad of erstwhile New York Yankee Brett Gardner, has experts speaking retired astir c monoxide aft the teen died portion connected abrogation successful Costa Rica. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Dr. Marc Siegel, objective prof of medicine astatine NYU Langone Health and a Fox News elder aesculapian analyst, said, "symptoms tin travel connected rapidly wrong minutes oregon hours and tin see headache, nausea, fatigue, dizziness and vomiting."

If you acquisition symptoms that you deliberation could beryllium from c monoxide poisoning,  the Environmental Protection Agency recommends opening doors and windows, turning disconnected combustion appliances and leaving the building.

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Siegel said punctual attraction with oxygen tin sometimes reverse c monoxide poisoning.

Between 2009 and 2019, deaths from non-fire-related c monoxide poisoning person been connected the rise, according to a caller study released by the CPSC. (iStock)

"It is perfectly shocking to maine that it took this agelong to beryllium disclosed arsenic a apt origin of death, erstwhile they could person done a trial for c monoxide successful [Miller Gardener's] humor wrong hours during his autopsy weeks ago," Siegel told Fox News Digital.

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