This month Dr. Abram spoke about a new and interesting way to be poisoned by poison Ivy. In Korea, they put pieces of the stems inside a chicken when cooking it to “help make you feel better when sick.” The paper describing such a case can be found here:
If you don’t know what poison ivy (or any of those toxicodendron plants) look like, take a look at this image. I would recommend you avoid this stuff when outside.
Liz was also nice enough to write a summary of the toxic chicken article. That can be found by clicking here:
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