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Woman Died After Stepping on Venomous Caterpillars
Fox ^
| July 15, 2008
| staff reporter
Posted on 07/15/2008 11:33:45 AM PDT by Daffynition
A Canadian woman died last year after stepping barefoot on several caterpillars, doctors reported in a teaching case published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The 22-year old woman from Alberta died 10 days after stepping on five caterpillars while on a trip to northeastern Peru.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals; Travel
KEYWORDS: peru; venom; wildlife
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Wow. Watch where you step. Lethal cattlepillars.
To: Daffynition
Gotta watch out for those Caterpillars.
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posted on
07/15/2008 11:38:35 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
To: Daffynition
must have crossbred w/ a bull to get those horns and that nose.
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posted on
07/15/2008 11:39:07 AM PDT
by
Americanwolf
(Don't Think a cop will help? Try calling a crack head next time......!! Thanks Thorin!)
To: lilycicero
Watch out below in Branson!
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posted on
07/15/2008 11:40:44 AM PDT
by
RedRover
(DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
To: Daffynition
This is a perfect illustration of
the other side of the coin when the Gaia worshipers say we need to save the jungles because the cure for cancer may be found there someday.
More immediate is the fact that the jungle has thousands of new and exotic ways to kill the unwary. Specially foreign visitors from an advanced country where ignorance and "touchy-feely" are epidemic.
Just saying.
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posted on
07/15/2008 11:44:02 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
To: Publius6961
I need to know. Did the caterpillars survive?!
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posted on
07/15/2008 11:48:30 AM PDT
by
Soliton
(Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
To: Publius6961
Many toxins make good medicines once their molecular mode of action is discovered and the proper dose determined.
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posted on
07/15/2008 11:48:58 AM PDT
by
allmendream
(If the New Yorker makes a joke and liberals don't get it, is it still funny?)
To: Daffynition
Soon to be featured on a episode of House...
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posted on
07/15/2008 11:49:14 AM PDT
by
BreitbartSentMe
(Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
To: Daffynition; RikaStrom
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posted on
07/15/2008 11:51:41 AM PDT
by
RikaStrom
(The number one rule of the Kama Sutra is that you both be on the same page.../Exeter 051705)
To: RedRover
Branson? Is that in Canada? I don’t know anything about either.
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posted on
07/15/2008 11:53:55 AM PDT
by
lilycicero
(You are like lo jack.)
To: Daffynition
Here is the actual venomous caterpillar that is presumed to have caused her demise:
To: Daffynition
There are stinging caterpillars in the U.S. I remember getting touched by a few while tending the garden when I was a kid. Obviously, not nearlya s venemous as these.
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posted on
07/15/2008 12:00:13 PM PDT
by
Ghengis
(Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
To: Bush_Democrat
Soon to be featured on a episode of House... Well, you know it is not Lupus. It is never Lupus.
To: Slings and Arrows
HAHAHA! You're very bad!
To: the_devils_advocate_666
I saw these highlighted on a nature program once. Nasty little buggers (no pun intended).
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posted on
07/15/2008 12:02:05 PM PDT
by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
To: Daffynition
Mind you, Caterpillar bites can be nasti...
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posted on
07/15/2008 12:02:37 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
To: Bush_Democrat
Well, there goes our trip to Machu Picchu.
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posted on
07/15/2008 12:04:25 PM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
(( commander of the simian host))
To: Daffynition
Maybe I’ve watch too much Discovery and Animal Planet, but going barefoot in Peru just sounds like a bad idea in general.
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posted on
07/15/2008 12:06:49 PM PDT
by
retrokitten
(Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.)
To: Publius6961
This is a perfect illustration of the other side of the coin when the Gaia worshipers say we need to save the jungles because the cure for cancer may be found there someday. Why am I suddenly reminded of a certain South Park episode about the rainforest and stupid Gaia-worshiping feel-good liberals?
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posted on
07/15/2008 12:11:33 PM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Bulls and bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.)
To: retrokitten
Maybe I’ve watch too much Discovery and Animal Planet, but going barefoot in Peru just sounds like a bad idea in general. 
"I always went bearfoot in Peru."
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posted on
07/15/2008 12:12:48 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
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