What to do About Bites and Stings of Venomous Animals

'Tis the season for venomous bites, stings.

Bites and stings from venomous animals: a neglected Brazilian tropical disease.

Infrared thermography to diagnose and manage venomous animal bites and stings.

INTRODUCTION Infrared imaging (IR) is a noninvasive technique that quantifies body surface temperature, producing a digital color image. IR has been used to study diseases in which skin temperature can reflect the presence of inflammation. METHODS This was an observational pilot study of eight patients envenomed by snakes, spiders, and scorpions. All patients were examined using a thermal cam...

What Do Animals Care About?

I am going to argue for a thesis that almost nobody in this audience would dispute: animals have things they care about, and the fact that animals care about them has moral significance. However, the lack of disagreement (in this forum, at least) should not disguise the fact that more work needs to be done, both to answer a recent spate ofattempts to deny the thesis and to clarify exactly what ...

[Recording of venomous bites and stings by National Information Systems in Brazil].

This paper highlights the epidemiological surveillance of venomous bites and stings according to four national information systems: SINAN (National Databank of Major Causes of Morbidity), SINITOX (National Information System on Poisoning), SIH-SUS (Hospital Information System of the Unified Health System), and SIM (Mortality Information System). The authors conclude that each information system...