Exogenous poisonings are one of the principal accidents involving children and adolescents. The social isolation promoted by COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns about possibility an increase in poisoning among since most cases occur home environments. Therefore, present study evaluated exogenous under ten years age adolescents aged 11 to 20 old through data recorded at Toxicological Information A...

Snakebite envenoming is a major neglected tropical health issue. The high incidence of snakebites in rural communities suggests that venomous snakes and people are often proximity but quantitative evidence lacking. I used radio-telemetry on population Russell’s vipers (Daboia russelii), one the most medically important world, to quantify between this snake estimate susceptibility snakebite Indi...

Accidents with venomous animals are a significant cause of global morbidity and mortality. Through the evolution, these animals have used their venomous apparatus for defence and prey capture. During the adaptation process in environment, several changes have occurred in snake venoms constitution. Nowadays, it is currently known that these animals are able to accumulate a mixture of different c...

Snakebites and accidents caused by venomous arthropods (mainly spiders, scorpions, bees, wasps and caterpillars) are important public health problem. Despite of this, public health authorities, nationally and internationally, have given little attention to this problem worldwide (Warrell, 2010; Williams et al., 2010). As a consequence, the morbidity and mortality associated with snake and arthr...

This study analyzes the characteristics of accidental poisoning among children and young adolescents (< 15 years) in Londrina, Paraná State, Brazil, in 2001. Data were obtained from patient records in general hospitals, the local Poison Control Center, and the municipal Mortality Information Center. There were 473 cases of poisoning, with an incidence rate of 339.8 per 100,000, 58.5% due to poi...

Envenomation and poisoning by terrestrial animals (both vertebrate and invertebrate) are a significant economic problem and health risk for domestic animals in Australia. Australian snakes are some of the most venomous animals in the world and bees, wasps, ants, paralysis ticks, and cane toads are also present as part of the venomous and poisonous fauna. The diagnosis and treatment of envenomat...

The monotremes (platypuses and echidnas) represent one of only four extant venomous mammalian lineages. Until recently, monotreme venom was poorly understood. However, the availability of the platypus genome and increasingly sophisticated genomic tools has allowed us to characterize platypus toxins, and provides a means of reconstructing the evolutionary history of monotreme venom. Here we revi...

The relationship between rates of diversification and of body size change (a common proxy for phenotypic evolution) was investigated across Elapidae, the largest radiation of highly venomous snakes. Time-calibrated phylogenetic trees for 175 species of elapids (more than 50% of known taxa) were constructed using seven mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Analyses using these trees revealed no evide...

Molecular systematic is important in solving the problematic taxonomy of venomous snakes and development of antivenins. The current study aimed to investigate the molecular phylogeny of 4 venomous species in Saudi Arabia using mitochondrial (mt) 16S rRNA gene. DNA extracted from blood and mt16S rRNA gene amplified by PCR. Sequences submitted to gene bank, examined for similarity with other sequ...