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Venomous animals
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Bites by venomous snakes cause more than 100,000 deaths and many permanent sequelae each year, while scorpion stings kill thousands of children. Hypersensitization to bee, wasp and ant venoms is a common cause of anaphylaxis but mass attacks by African killer bees can kill by direct envenoming. Aquatic venomous animals include sea snakes, stinging fish, jellyfish, corals, cone shells, blue-ringed octopuses and sea urchins. Treatment of severe envenoming by all these groups of animals requires...
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- Journal:
- Medicine
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 159-163
- Publication date:
- 2012-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1365-4357
- ISSN:
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1357-3039
- Source identifiers:
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316917
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- English
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