Doctors in southwest China had to shave the head of a patient who mistook a bottle of pesticide for shampoo and washed his hair with the highly toxic substance.
The unidentified man from Kunming in Yunnan province stored the bottle of dichlorvos, or DDVP, next to his shampoo and only realised his error earlier this month when he noticed its smell, Chinese news site Kankanews.com reported.
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