Dr. Richard Moriarty, who helped create ‘Mr. Yuk’ poison warning for teenagers, dies at 83

PITTSBURGH — Dr. Richard W. Moriarty, a retired pediatrician from Pittsburgh who helped create the brilliant inexperienced Mr. Yuk sticker that warns children away from toxic substances, has died. He was 83.

Moriarty handed away on Thursday, in response to Jeffrey Fugh of the funeral house John A. Freyvogel Sons Inc., which is dealing with preparations in Pittsburgh.

Moriarty was concerned in establishing and growing the Pittsburgh Poison Center, the place he served as director.

He died at UPMC Shadyside hospital a number of months after present process surgical procedure, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

He advised the newspaper that the response by youngsters in focus teams to the Mr. Yuk sticker’s sickly inexperienced colour and upset face was instrumental – “the Mr. Yuk symbol was designed by kids for kids.” The poison consciousness marketing campaign started in 1971.

He grew up in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood and attended the University of Pittsburgh for faculty and its medical faculty, the place he was a longtime school member. He additionally ran a non-public pediatric observe.

Moriarty served on the boards of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Pittsburgh Public Theater.