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Health Alert - The Giant Hogweed Plant

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A growing number of these plants are being seen across Ontario including Uxbridge.

The giant Hogweed Plant is a huge toxic plant that can cause serious burns and scarring as well as blindness. Sap from the plant has the ability to bond with your skin when exposed to sunlight it causes inflammation, itching, weeping blisters and eventually will leave black and purplish scars.

Giant hogweed is most frequently found adjacent to streams, creeks, roads, in vacant lots or in rights of ways.

"Even a tiny trace of sap applied to the eye can singe the cornea, causing temporary or permanent blindness, he added. The chemicals in the sap, furocoumarins, are carcinogenic and teratogenic, meaning they can cause cancer and birth defects." Drew Halfnight - Giant weed that burns and blinds spreads across Canada - National Post

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Kathy Clulow  Sales Representative RE/MAX All-Stars Realty Inc..  Brokerage 905.852.6143
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Comments (4)

Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Wow - I'd never heard of Giant Hogweed. That sounds scary if you happen to have children who could get into it when playing outdoors. 

Jun 26, 2013 05:37 PM
Bruce Walter
Keller Williams Realty Lafayette/West Lafayette, Indiana - West Lafayette, IN

Kathy, thanks for posting this.  Saw a couple of teasers on Yahoo but never opened them.  Giant Hogweed is not something to come into contact with!!!  Good video!!!

Jun 26, 2013 10:15 PM
Kathy Clulow
Uxbridge, ON
Trusted For Experience - Respected For Results

Marte - or grandchildren we have some by our river bank and the stuff we bought to kill it did not work. we may have to call in someone who can guarantee to kill it as it spreads easily along river banks.

Jun 28, 2013 10:04 AM
Kathy Clulow
Uxbridge, ON
Trusted For Experience - Respected For Results

Bruce - be glad you opened this one ..... it actually is a stunning plant and if you did not know how dangerous it was you might be inclined to let it grow.

Jun 28, 2013 10:06 AM