Bitten: Bites and Stings from Around the World
- ISBN-10
- 1422390268
- ISBN-13
- 9781422390269
- Series
- Bitten
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-09-01
- Author
- Pamela Nagami
Description
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.¿
