In a small Australian town, a lunch invitation turned deadly. Erin Patterson, a 50-year-old mother of two, invited her estranged husband's elderly relatives for a meal. What was supposed to be a simple gathering ended in tragedy when three of the four guests died from mushroom poisoning. The sole survivor, Ian Wilkinson, spent weeks in intensive care and later testif...
In a small town near Melbourne, a peculiar and tragic event unfolded. A woman named Erin Patterson is at the center of a legal storm. She is accused of a shocking crime: using deadly mushrooms to harm her in-laws. The incident happened during a lunch gathering at her home in July 2023. Patterson served a beef Wellington dish laced with death cap mushrooms, one of the...
The cucumber crisis is spreading. People in 18 states have fallen ill due to a salmonella outbreak. The culprit? Tainted cucumbers. These weren't just any cucumbers. They were sent to various places like restaurants, hospitals, cruise ships, and even grocery stores, including Target. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that at le...
Tracy Morgan's recent visit to Madison Square Garden turned into an unexpected scene. During the Heat-Knicks game, he suddenly fell ill. Morgan, a well-known comedian, was taken to the hospital after experiencing food poisoning. He shared the news on Instagram, thanking fans for their support and joking about the incident. Morgan humorously suggested that his ill...
The deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, have left investigators with more questions than answers. The couple was found deceased in their Santa Fe home, along with one of their dogs. The other two dogs were found alive and well, but the mystery deepens as investigators consider multiple possibilities. The initial investigation revealed no signs of a g...
In Sri Lanka, many people accidentally or intentionally consume profenofos, an insecticide, and often mix it with alcohol. This makes treating their poisoning much harder. Doctors want to know how alcohol levels in the blood affect the poisoning and how the body processes profenofos. They're trying to figure out if alcohol makes the poisoning worse and how fast the b...
Did you know that the AI models used in healthcare can be tricked into spreading false medical information? This happens because these models, called large language models (LLMs), learn from vast amounts of data found online. Imagine they read a fake news article about a made-up disease and start believing it's real! We tested this by fooling an LLM with a tiny amoun...
Winter brings a mix of dangers like carbon monoxide poisoning, hypothermia, and frozen pipes bursting. Millions in the U. S. are bracing for heavy snow and cold conditions. Staying indoors is key during winter storms, but running heaters all night can raise the risk of carbon monoxide. This odorless, colorless gas can be deadly. It's produced by furnaces, stoves, and...
You know how sometimes you just want to enjoy a meal after a busy day? Well, imagine if that meal turned into a health scare? That's what happened to Erin Andrews. She was just trying to relax and unwind with a bowl of her favorite burrito. But things got weird when she noticed something off. “I looked down at my bowl and saw that the turkey was a bit pink, ” she to...
Dayle Haddon, a renowned actor and activist, was tragically found dead in a Pennsylvania home last week. She was 76 years old. Emergency services had been called to her residence in Solebury Township, Bucks County, after reports of an unconscious person. Upon arrival, they discovered Haddon in a second-floor bedroom. Another person, a 76-year-old man named Walter J. ...