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To: expat1000

>> some permanent numbness in the thumb

From bite lacerations or poison?


7 posted on 07/12/2012 6:43:07 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Gene Eric

>> some permanent numbness in the thumb

>From bite lacerations or poison?

I didn’t read the article, so don’t know if it goes into this, but the venom destroys tissue. So the real danger is infection where the venom is injected (could be deep!) leading to gangrene. That’s why they kept me in the hospital more than a day - to monitor that. So the numbness is due to that destroyed tissue. The lacerations themselves were fairly minor.


11 posted on 07/12/2012 8:02:59 PM PDT by expat1000
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