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Man Admitted To Hospital After Taking Rattlesnake Pills As Alternative Medicine

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EXCERPT: In a twist on selling snake oil to soothe various ailments, some people have taken to hawking rattlesnake pills instead. Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning that there can be a serious health risk from popping these pills, as evidenced by a man in Kansas who was hospitalized with a severe Salmonella infection after taking them.

The case actually happened last year, but the CDC has just released a new report on the incident after tests were done on a different batch of pills found in Texas. The results showed that "the Salmonella found in the sample of rattlesnake pills was closely related genetically to an isolate from a patient in Kansas. This close genetic relationship makes it likely that the Kansas patient became ill from consumption of rattlesnake pills.”

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