UAHS Healthy Dose Blog -- Stay Safe During Snakebite Season by Dr. Mazda Shirazi

April 27, 2017

With the advent of warm weather, Dr. Mazda Shirazi, medical director of the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center, is reminding people of the dangers of rattlesnakes. Also, It’s not only snakebite reports the specialists answering the phones at the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center receive, says Dr. Shirazi. With approximately 150 calls per day from the public and health care providers’ they respond to questions 24/7 about everything from rattlesnake bites and scorpion stings to prescription side effects. Read about it in The Healthy Dose.