niti
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A 13 year old boy appears in your emergency room complaining of blurred vision and a dry mouth. His companions say that he has been muttering about a white condor that is going to pick him up and take him to a mountain top. He was a member of a scout troop that has been hiking and camping in the Capitol Reef area of Utah. On physical examination he is afebrile, has a rather ruddy complexion and his pupils are dilated and fixed. He adamantly denies eating any canned food or processed meat, but confesses that on a "dare" he ate a large trumpet-like white flower that his patrol members brought back from a hike in the desert. The most likely explanation for his illness is:
A. A food-borne infection with E. coli 0157:H7
B. Ingestion of Datura stramonium with a resulting anticholinergic and hallucinogenic reaction
C. He has a malignant brain tumor
D. He has been bitten by a brown recluse spider
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| bactitech
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I'll go with B - here's a picture:
http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?...
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| monikitar
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:roll: I'M SURE IS B.
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