When skin touches poison ivy, poison oak or poison sumac plants, the oils from the plant can cause a rash. This rash can be very uncomfortable, itchy and unsightly. The medical name for this rash is ...

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Enjoying the outdoors carries the danger of running into nature’s less-friendly side: toxic plants and animals. As toxicologists at the University of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Poison Center, we see many ...

In pre-Roman Sardinia, a chilling legend recounts how Phoenician settlers employed a potent poison, hemlock water dropwort, for the ritualistic killing of the elderly and the execution of criminals.

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