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STRANGE DEATHS

Australian authorities are investigating the deaths of Natasha Lechner and Jarrad Antonovitch in New South Wales, which both occurred after they had taken kambo (also known as sapo), a waxy substance obtained by scraping the skin of a live giant monkey frog, originally found in the Amazon. There, indigenous peoples have used kambo for centuries to improve hunting skills and ward off bad luck, but in the West, New Age practitioners promote it as being able to “detoxify” the body,

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