Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo (Feb 2013)

RRH: envenoming syndrome due to 200 stings from Africanized honeybees

  • Guilherme Almeida Rosa da Silva,
  • Karina Lebeis Pires,
  • Diogo Cerqueira de Salles Soares,
  • Marcos Rosa Ferreira,
  • Fernando Raphael de Almeida Ferry,
  • Rogerio Neves Motta,
  • Marcelo Costa Velho Mendes de Azevedo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652013000100011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 1
pp. 61 – 64

Abstract

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Envenoming syndrome from Africanized bee stings is a toxic syndrome caused by the inoculation of large amounts of venom from multiple bee stings, generally more than five hundred. The incidence of severe toxicity from Africanized bee stings is rare but deadly. This report reveals that because of the small volume of distribution, having fewer stings does not exempt a patient from experiencing an unfavorable outcome, particularly in children, elderly people or underweight people.

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