The roots of the flower contain the most amount of poison, but poisoning cases are most often the result of children eating the berries. Some people may experience a rash or skin irritation from ...

Poison ivy is the dreaded backyard intruder that no one wants to discover woven into their bushes. Not only does the invasive vine cause a notorious rash, but it can spread throughout your ...

A New York bank manager sentenced last week to 9.5 years behind bars for a foiled murder-for-hire scheme against her brother-in-law allegedly told the would-be hitman that "rat poison can do a ...

Food poisoning is likely to affect more people in the future as humid temperatures become more common due to climate change, microbiologists have warned. The strain of bacteria called Salmonella ...

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An Indiana man has admitted he tried to kill his wife by poisoning her Coca-Cola with cocaine, MDMA and benzodiazepines so he could marry her daughter, authorities said. Alfred W. Ruf, 71 ...

Data poisoning is a type of cyberattack in which a bad actor intentionally compromises a training dataset used by an AI model by introducing malicious or corrupted data. The goal is to manipulate ...

The poison in school water fountains That’s the case in New York state, where schools showed alarming lead levels. Today, how families there are fighting for clean water.

After a deep sleep, Mr. Richins woke up and called a friend, to whom he said, “I think my wife tried to poison me,” prosecutors wrote in their brief. Prosecutors said Ms. Richins’s “failed ...

The reason for the shot was a recent meal, which she worried may have given her food poisoning, she said. And she had read in a study that because “alcohol is a sterilizer,” it can protect ...

The number of calls to U.S. poison centers about children consuming energy drinks increased about 20% in 2023 after years of remaining relatively flat, according to data from America's Poison Centers.