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Article: Don't let that bite you.
- Article from:
- Mail Today (New Delhi, India)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2009
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Most of us dismiss insect bites without realising that many of them are hazardous to the health. Here we inform you about the consequences of common bites that range from cellulitis to scarring of the skin as well as other harmful diseases
IT IS a familiar scene; the weary traveller returns from a trip to the Amazon jungle or Africa and discovers a cluster of what he believes is mosquito bites. He ignores these swellings until he is wracked by fever and stabbing pains in the area. Eventually the cluster starts to move and spread and doctors discover maggots living inside the skin.
Though this is a worst case scenario, the fact remains that an insect bite ...