Two diners sickened by poisonous plant at northern Taiwan hotel

Two patrons at a hotel restaurant in northern Taiwan were sickened last month after ingesting food from a bed of leaves of the poisonous alocasia odora plant, also known as night-scented lily, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Wednesday.

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