{"id":41815,"date":"2015-07-15T22:10:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T02:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=41815"},"modified":"2015-07-15T22:12:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T02:12:42","slug":"do-not-touch-this-plant-is-leaving-children-hospitalized-learn-more-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/do-not-touch-this-plant-is-leaving-children-hospitalized-learn-more-here\/","title":{"rendered":"DO NOT TOUCH! This Plant Is Leaving Children Hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Giant hogweed \u00a0is a Federally listed noxious weed. Its sap, in combination with moisture and sunlight, can cause severe skin and eye irritation, painful blistering, permanent scarring and blindness.<\/p>\n

Officials in New York, and across the country, are warning people of the poisonous plant.<\/p>\n

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Contact between the skin and the sap of this plant occurs either through brushing against the bristles on the stem or breaking the stem or leaves.<\/p>\n

Lauren Fuller was on a fishing trip with her dad when she picked a piece of a Giant Hogweed plant to add to a den she was building. Within 24 hours, Lauren had bright red burns on her hands and cheeks, but when her parents took her to hospital, they were told it was just sunburn. Unsatisfied with the diagnosis, Russell and Charlotte Fuller turned to Google to research their daughter’s symptoms – and quickly realised she was a victim of Giant Hogweed.<\/p>\n