It is very common in all parts of India, and is highly extolled by the natives as a specific antidote for the bites of poisonous animals. The seeds are used in nydrophobia and in cases of snake bites. The flowering tops, rubbed with sugar and made into pills, are administered to persons bitten by mad dogs. The leaves rubbed into a pulp are applied to the bites of scorpions and centipedes with a...

Eliminating toxins from the hay begins in the field. However, toxic weeds frequently end up in hay and forage and pose a serious risk to livestock. The effects of poisonous plants on animals depend on the amount ingested and the individual weed present in hay. Many indications for poisoning exist. Obvious cases involve sudden onset of disease in a number of animals. Finding of common feed or en...

The incidence of poisonous snakebites has regional variance. Health care providers' knowledge and comfort in treating these envenomated patients depends on the density of poisonous snakes in their environment, with practitioners in the southern U.S. typically treating more exposed patients than those in colder regions in the North. We present a rare case of a confirmed copperhead snakebite that...

The Ministry of Health in China has been releasing statistical bulletins of foodborne illness outbreaks quarterly and annually on its website to keep foodborne illnesses under constant surveillance. In this study, we summarized reports concerning all foodborne illness outbreaks in China announced by the Ministry of Health during 2000-2014. Published reports from 2000 to 2014 were also included ...

The origins of the project go back about ten years. At that time, I wanted to make a game that required a lot of information about animals which ones were dangerous, which ones were good for eating, how big they were, etc. So I manually constructed a relational data base listing all the common animals and all their important properties. There were several thousand animals, and each had about 10...

Animals can be trained to avoid eating specific foods by offering them the food and subsequently administering an emtic to induce nausea. The animal associates the taste of the food with the induced illness and subsequently avoids eating that food. Conditioned food aversion (CFA) is a potential tool to prevent livestock poisoning from palatable and abundant poisonous plants. Cattle have been tr...

Southern Africa is inherently rich in flora, where the habitat and climatic conditions range from arid environments to lush, sub-tropical greenery. Needless to say, with such diversity in plant life there are numerous indigenous poisonous plants, and when naturalised exotic species and toxic garden varieties are added the list of potential poisonous plants increases. The economically important ...

Conditioned food aversion is a powerful experimental tool to modify animal diets. We have also investigated it as a potential management tool to prevent livestock from grazing poisonous plants such as tall larkspur (Delphinium barbeyi), white locoweed (Oxytropis sericea) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) on western US rangelands. The following principles pertain to increasing the strength an...

This study analyzes the characteristics of accidental poisoning among children and young adolescents (< 15 years) in Londrina, Paraná State, Brazil, in 2001. Data were obtained from patient records in general hospitals, the local Poison Control Center, and the municipal Mortality Information Center. There were 473 cases of poisoning, with an incidence rate of 339.8 per 100,000, 58.5% due to poi...