1Directorate of Environmental Health and Malaria Eradication, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman. Received: 23/09/01; accepted: 08/01/02 ABSTRACT A simple pro forma was used for a retrospective study of poisoning cases at 45 health institutions in Oman during January–December 2000. No deaths were recorded among 2009 cases of acute poisoning. A quarter of all cases (55.8% of paediatric cases) were...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology and clinical features of box jellyfish envenoming in the Top End of the Northern Territory and, in particular, confirmed stings from the major Australian box jellyfish, Chironex fleckeri. DESIGN Prospective collection of clinical data and skin scrapings or sticky-tape tests for nematocyst identification from patients presenting to Royal Darwin Hospital a...

Abstract This study’s purpose was to make an overview of how ants, bees, wasps, and their products, such as honey are utilized, perceived, experienced in daily life across sub-Saharan Africa. Ethno-entomological information collected by interviews with more than 300 people from 27 countries literature studies. Queens the ant Carebara vidua deliberately eaten unintentionally bee larvae sugar ant...

Background: Referring to individuals with reactivity to honey bee and Vespula venom in diagnostic tests, the umbrella terms “double sensitization” or “double positivity” cover patients with true clinical double allergy and those allergic to a single venom with asymptomatic sensitization to the other. There is no international consensus on whether immunotherapy regimens should generally include ...

BACKGROUND Referring to individuals with reactivity to honey bee and Vespula venom in diagnostic tests, the umbrella terms "double sensitization" or "double positivity" cover patients with true clinical double allergy and those allergic to a single venom with asymptomatic sensitization to the other. There is no international consensus on whether immunotherapy regimens should generally include b...

BACKGROUND Hornet stings are generally associated with local and occasionally anaphylactic reactions. Rarely systemic complications like acute renal failure can occur following multiple stings. Renal failure is usually due to development of acute tubular necrosis as a result of intravascular haemolysis, rhabdomyolysis or shock. Rarely it can be following development of acute tubulo-interstitial...

Bee stings are commonly encountered worldwide. Various manifestations after bee sting have been described including local reactions which are common, systemic responses such as anaphylaxis, diffuse intravascular coagulation and hemolysis. We report a case of a 74-year-old man who developed neurologic deficit 5 hours after bee stings, which was confirmed to be left frontal infarction on brain CT...