Beware: lethal hemlock plant looks like innocent white flowers.
Hemlock, a poisonous, invasive plant that’s increasingly common to fields and backyards across the US and Europe, is spreading like wildfire — and it can cause symptoms akin to the most severe cases of COVID., can be felt even if you don’t directly touch it. Jim LeBlond, a resident of Madeira, Ohio, almost fatally learned this last May after cleaning out his backyard.
. “It had been a wet spring, and the weeds were already everywhere. I saw a lot of white flowers, but I didn’t think anything of it.”Getty Images/iStockphotoDoctors first feared the fully vaccinated LeBlond had a nasty case of COVID or pneumonia and admitted him to the ICU. His oxygen levels were reaching critical lows.LeBlond — who was healthy and hearty just a few days prior — had to be put into a medically induced coma and on a ventilator because of the hemlock.
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