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Snake bites cause 40,000 deaths each year! 700 million people annually contract disease from mosquito bites! Snakes, spiders, crocodiles, jellyfish, cats, dogs & even humans, nearly every creature that can sting or bite appears in this book. All inflict pain, transmit a host of nasty diseases or worse -- from the instant death of the cone snail¿s sting to the lingering agony of the parasite Leishmania, which lives in mucus & can collapse the nose. Using reports from medical journals & anecdotes from her career, Nagami presents a fascinating history of some of the most critical cases & how the anti-venoms & cures were found. ¿A frighteningly vivid & compulsively readable book full of potentially life-saving facts.¿Nagami, Pamela is the author of 'Bitten : Bites and Stings from Around the World', published 2007 under ISBN 9781422390269 and ISBN 1422390268.
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