'Dead Priest's Hair'? Alternative Medicine Poisoned Man

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

A man in Switzerland developed severe lead poisoning after taking an alternative medicine treatment — he took pills that he thought contained the hair of a dead Bhutanese priest, but the pills were actually replete with the toxic metal lead.

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