The government has ordered a nationwide recall of a horse drug sold over the Internet called Miracle Leg Paint, because it contains mercury that is poisonous both to horses and to people, according to an Associated Press report. 

Horse owners who have purchased the product should not use it. Instead, they should contact local waste-management authorities to determine how to destroy it

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