Ergotism, or ergot poisoning, is when a person or animal eats food that has been contaminated with a fungus called C. purpurea. The fungus is most commonly found in rye, but it can affect other grains ...

Ergot is a fungus that can grow on grains such as rye and wheat. Symptoms of ergot poisoning or ergotism vary but include dizziness, convulsions, and psychosis. In the past, midwives and doctors used ...

At the industry-wide meeting on Thursday, May 10, Dr. Steve Jackson, an equine nutrition consultant and owner of Bluegrass Equine Nutrition, and Dr. Jimmy Henning, an extension forage specialist at ...

When Linnda Caporael began nosing into the Salem witch trials as a college student in the early 1970s, she had no idea that a common grain fungus might be responsible for the terrible events of 1692.

BROOKINGS, S.D. — Weather conditions consisting of a cool, damp spring followed by warmer temperatures in the summer can cause grasses to become infected with ergot bodies. Ergot is a fungal infection ...

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Signs of St. Anthony’s fire were easy to see: seizures, hallucinations, and blackened limbs. Medieval Europeans believed its cause to be spiritual, but the true cause was far more earthly. Peter ...

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TO encounter late at night a young nurse with impending gangrene of all four extremities secondary to ergotism is a frightening experience, and one that impresses the physician with the paucity of ...