Hogweed burns
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- July
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Second-degree burns on 40 percent of his body. That’s what Eric Semenetz said he suffered after coming into contact with the sap from a giant hogweed plant about 10 years ago. The Mahopac resident said he was pulling it out of his yard in the sweltering sun that day. Hogweed sap plus sunlight is a dangerous combination, as I highlighted in a story earlier this week. This post will point you back to the story, which includes other links to identifying the plant and dealing with it.
“I used to go around spraying it with weed killer but the stuff is so resilient, it just laughed at me,” Semenetz said in an e-mail earlier this week.
He added that he was “in bad shape for several months. Still have the scars from it.”
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Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
