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Intoxication by the pale grebe is extremely severe and in about 90% of cases without urgent medical attention leads to death. Any avid mushroom hunter needs to know not only how these mushrooms differ from similar edible drupes, but also the signs of poisoning, because only an urgent visit to the hospital...

To save a person's life when poisoned, an antidote is something that stops the effects of the poison. Most poisons, in fact, do not have an antidote. Still, this does not mean that an antidote does not exist; rather, it simply has not been found to work. Fortunately, many of the more serious poisons that people are more likely to...

In the countries of Equatorial Africa and South America grows a small plant, the sap of which, until recently, carried only death. By the way, it was easy to buy curare poison in these countries. The natives impregnated small arrows with the juice. An animal struck by such an arrow, after a brief stupor, would die. The victim ...

The 10 most ruthless poisons. Many people believe that poisons are a relic of the past or even a mystical phenomenon. They exist only in historical stories, in terrible myths about kings and frightening fairy tales. Nevertheless, poisons are all around us: they are present in our drinking water, in the air and even in our blood...