Bite

spread by the bite of an animal and must be treated immediately. Although untreated rabies is lethal, when immediate medical treatment is administered, the human’s chances of survival are excellent. Rabies is a very deadly disease and is passed through the bite of an infected animal. According to the article “Health Guide: Rabies” located in the New York Times, “Rabies is spread by infected saliva that enters the body through a bite or broken skin.” Once an infected animal bites a human, the…

twenty-six adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis start to set in. No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available yet, making it one of the deadliest reef inhabitants in the ocean. Blue-ringed octopuses are one of the deadliest animals in the sea. Through their range in Australia and the eastern Indo-Pacific, several humans suffer bites each year. Although, some…

Fad Diets By Rupert Starkey Fad diets are diets that do more harm than good to people that want to be healthier. They can result in people consuming unprocessed food or too little food that can lead to them being very ill. For example“The Raw Food diet”. The Raw food diet claims that when you cook food it get rids of all of the nutrients of the food you eat and that all processed foods have no nutrients. This claims it will make you lose weight and get more nutrients faster. This was created…

that the victim has suffered. That daily amount is then multiplied by the number of days that pain and suffering went on for. According to a 2010 study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the most common principal diagnoses for dog bite-related hospitalizations included skin and subcutaneous tissue infections (43.2%), open wounds of extremities (22.1%), and open wounds of the head, neck, and trunk (10.5%). Other chief diagnoses included fracture of upper limb, infective arthritis…

breed is unknown news media will often call it a pit bull.Last pitbulls are dangerous because they have a dangerous bite. Fifth, they have a dangerous bite because they wont let go of the bite. Sixth,the media intentionally over reports incidents of pitbulls.…

Most cases of these spider bites are rarely fatal, but it can cause severe local or systemic pain. The treatment recommended to relieve the symptoms is widow spider antivenom therapy, which will start to work in the span of one to two hours once it is administered. In most cases only two ampoules of antivenom are required (Graudins and Nicholson, 2003). The reason that black widow spider antivenom works well with a katipo bite is because they are from the same family of arachnids…

Supportive Services – Relieving Chigger Bites Summer is a time to get out and enjoy the great outdoors. Hiking through the fields, picking berries, or even gardening. Summer is also the height of bug season. One nasty rascal that makes itself known to those who enter into many forests, grassy fields, or parklands near water is the chigger. The chigger is actually a mite larva. Each chigger is only 1/150th of an inch long and can barely be seen. The results of their bites don't require a…

Regenerative Medicine Expert Discusses 5 Ways to Avoid Summer Tick Bites Summer is in full swing, which means gardening, outdoor play, hiking – and tick bites. More than an annoying seasonal nuisance, tick bites are to blame for an estimated 300,000 cases of Lyme disease annually. Thousands more are diagnosed with tick-borne diseases such as the Heartland virus infection, the flulike anaplasmosis, and the marlarialike disease babesiosis. Fortunately, the regenerative medicine specialists at…

The famous bite mark case of Ted Bundy not only finally created a link to him and his victims, but also set precedent for forensic odontology. Not only was he the first person in Florida to be convicted based on bite marks, but at the time of Bundy’s trial only 17 or 18 states allowed bite mark evidence to be admissible in the court of law and since 1989 all fifty states will now allow bite mark evidence as admissible to the court of law (Tabor 2014)…

the public safe from dog bites. The ban does not account for differences in each dogs temperament, socialization, or behavior displayed by individual dogs, but groups all dogs of specific breeds as dangerous. Breed specific legislation does not control the problem of dangerous…