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• Cicuta
  ...t medicine are often required to halt seizure activity and further medical care including [[intubation]] and [[mechanical ventilation]] may be required. ...s">{{cite journal |author=Landers D, Seppi K, Blauer W |title=Seizures and death on a white river float trip. Report of water hemlock poisoning |journal=The
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• Aconitum
  ...of trees. They are easily propagated by divisions of the root or by seeds; care should be taken not to leave pieces of the root where [[livestock]] might b ...a paralytic action on the respiratory centre and, in warm-blooded animals, death is due to this action, the respiration being arrested before the action of
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• Arisaema triphyllum
  ...ored meat, but consuming the meat reportedly caused their enemies pain and death. They also used it to determine the fate of the sick by dropping a seed in Care should also be taken to avoid confusion with [[poison ivy]], which has 3 le
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• Karaka (tree)
  ...asms which could leave the limbs permanently fixed in contorted positions. Death resulted in a few cases.<ref>Skey 1871:318</ref>
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• Nerium oleander
  ...her doses will affect other animals. Most animals can suffer a reaction or death from this plant.<ref name=Inchem/> ...of the muscles, [[seizures]], collapse, and even [[coma]] that can lead to death. Oleander sap can cause skin irritations, severe eye inflammation and irrit
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• Propædia
  ...nbsp;and&nbsp;[[Communities]] '''3.5.3'''&nbsp;[[Disease]]&nbsp;and&nbsp;[[Death]] '''3.5.4'''&nbsp;[[Biogeography|Biogeographic&nbsp;Distribution&nbsp;of&n ...'''4.2.4'''&nbsp;The&nbsp;Practice&nbsp;of&nbsp;[[Medicine]]&nbsp;and&nbsp;Care&nbsp;of&nbsp;[[Health]]
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...]'' (published 1732–1759) of [[Johann Heinrich Zedler]], who argued that death alone should not render people notable. ...a loss of appetite, a hectic fever, melancholy, or perhaps madness, if not death, constitutes the sad catastrophe.|20px|20px|[[James Tytler]]|in the 2nd–8
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• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ..., then he is the man suited to be his successor in his community after his death. But if it does not happen that those qualities are united in one man, but ...an emanation, a fragment of a universal soul with which it will reunite at death <ref name="ency-hossein-54">"The world in relation to Allah is like the wor
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• Pentoxifylline
  ...a production from human alveolar macrophages |journal=Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. |volume=159 |issue=2 |pages=508–11 |year=1999 |month=February |pmid= Co-administration of pentoxifylline and [[sodium thiopental]] causes death by acute [[pulmonary edema]] in rats.<ref> Pereda J, Gómez-Cambronero L, A
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• Bamboo
  ...e period between flowering events. Thus, according to this hypothesis, the death of the adult clone is due to resource exhaustion, as it would be more effec ...ory, the fire cycle hypothesis, argues that periodic flowering followed by death of the adult plants has evolved as a mechanism to create disturbance in the
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• Phenylpropanolamine
  ...standard [[Henry reaction]] between benzaldehyde and nitroethane, although care is taken not to dehydrate the alcohol. Reduction is usually done with a mil ...ma or urine to confirm a diagnosis of poisoning or assist in a medicolegal death investigation. Many commercial immunoassay screening tests directed at the
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• Workplace violence
  For employees, violence can cause pain, distress and even disability or death. Physical attacks are obviously dangerous but serious or persistent verbal * health care employees
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• Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
  ...d Kingdom]]. It regulates the [[statute|statutory]] obligation to report [[death]]s, [[injury|injuries]], [[disease]]s and "dangerous occurrences" that take ...under section 7 of the [[Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974]] to take care of safety. The [[Health and Safety Executive]] recommends that they report
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• Carbon monoxide poisoning
  ...ificant toxicity of the [[central nervous system]] and [[heart]], and even death. Following acute poisoning, long-term [[sequela]]e often occur. Carbon mono ...hypoxia|hypoxic injury]], [[Brain damage|neurological damage]], and even [[death]]. Different people and populations may have a different carbon monoxide to
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• Health and safety crime in the United Kingdom
  ...om]]''' there are several '''[[crime]]s''' that arise from failure to take care of [[occupational safety and health|health, safety and welfare]] at work. | Failing to discharge a duty under s.7 &ndash; Duty of employees to take care of safety
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• Cancer
  .../ | accessdate =2007-06-25 }}</ref> Cancer caused about 13% of [[causes of death|all human deaths]] in 2007<ref name="WHO">{{cite web | last =WHO | authorli ...h as hyperactive growth and division, protection against [[programmed cell death]], loss of respect for normal tissue boundaries, and the ability to become
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• Workplace stress
  ...for Occupational Safety and Health}}</ref> or in extreme cases, [[karoshi|death]]. ...rman J [1998]. The relationship between modifiable health risks and health care expenditure: An analysis of the multi-employer HERO health risk and cost da
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• Work–life balance
  ...their own stress by simplifying their lives and making a better effort to care for their health, most experts feel that the chief responsibility for reduc ...ident of the [[Center for Work-Life Policy]], if a woman takes time off to care for children or an older parent, employers tend to “see these people as l
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• Implications of nanotechnology
  ...charged with protecting the public against unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with consumer products, is ill-equipped to oversee the safety of ...lack access to basic services, such as safe water, reliable energy, health care, and education. The [[United Nations]] has set [[Millennium Development Go
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• Mold growth, assessment, and remediation
  ...h levels of mycotoxins can lead to neurological problems and in some cases death. Prolonged exposure, e.g. daily workplace exposure, can be particularly har ...-porous]] surfaces by wiping or scrubbing with water and a [[detergent]]. Care must be exercised to make sure the material is allowed to quickly dry to di
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