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Aeolidia spp.: Oceans worldwide Family Glaucidae Glaucus spp.: Oceans worldwide Family Facelinidae Hermissenda: Pacific Ocean Family Creseidae Creseis acicula (sea slug): Warm seas worldwide MOLLUSKS (bivalves, squid, octopus snails, cones) Family Octopodidae Octupus maculata (blue-ringed octopus): Austral-Asia Family Conidae Conus aulicus (cone shell): Southern Pacific Ocean C. catus (cone shell): Southern Pacific Ocean C. geographus (geography cone): Southern Pacific Ocean C. imperialis (cone shell): Southern Pacific Ocean C. lividus (cone shell): Southern Pacific Ocean C. marmoreus (cone shell): Southern Pacific Ocean C. nanus (cone shell): Southern Pacific Ocean C. obscurus (cone shell): Southern Pacific Ocean C. omaria (cone shell): Southern Pacific Ocean C. striatus (cone shell): Southern Pacific Ocean C. textile (cone shell): Southern Pacific Ocean C. tulipa (cone shell): Southern Pacific Ocean
Family Bulimidae Oncomelania spp.: Asia and Asian Pacific Islands Family Planorbidae Biomphalaria (Australorbis) spp.: Africa, Middle East, Madagascar, Central and South America, Southwestern United States, and certain Caribbean Islands Bulinus spp.: Africa, Middle East, Madagascar, Mauritius, India
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Field Guide to Venomous and Medical
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Introduction Types of negative inte
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Other Arthropods Centipedes Millipe
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Threats from invertebrates encompas
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―traumatic‖ may be applied, and
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Surveillance of Medically Important
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Black widow spiders and their relat
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There are several commercially avai
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Approximately 12-24 hours following
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Reactions to envenomation by funnel
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Figure 21. Six-eyed sand spider (Si
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Yellow Sac spiders More than 200 sp
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one South American species, Lycosa
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Mesobuthus tamulus, the common red
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The effects of scorpion venom on pe
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motor skills become impaired. Other
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Larval chiggers actively crawl to t
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Scabies mites produce two general t
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Reactions from the bites of these v
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from pale yellow to reddish-brown.
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longer a tick remains attached, the
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Lice in the families Pediclulidae a
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Cockroaches Cockroaches are not med
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Although bites of kissing bugs norm
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the source of bed bugs. Under norma
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norepinephrine that affect the abil
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practical, scented sprays, perfumes
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Bumble bees and carpenter bees- Alt
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are their bodies are commonly disti
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Bullet ants are large (~1 inch or 2
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which resolves within a few days. S
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Certain species (brown-tail moth, t
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Blister beetles (Family Meloidae)-
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should consider the potential healt
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feces or urine. The life cycle of b
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Chrysomya bezziana (Calliphoridae),
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Wohlfahrtia magnifica (family Sarco
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mosquito eggs hatch into larvae wit
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Aedes and Ochlerotatus mosquitoes a
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of these genera play a secondary ro
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and Phlebotomous in the Old World.
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effective on the local scale. These
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Filth flies (Families Muscidae, Cal
Page 87 and 88: cosmopolitan distributions, can be
Page 89 and 90: Northern rat flea, Nosopsyllus fasc
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Page 93 and 94: Millipedes Millipedes (Class Diplop
Page 95 and 96: distributed largely in marine syste
Page 97 and 98: Figure 230. West coast sea nettle (
Page 99 and 100: Carukia barnesi is a small box jell
Page 101 and 102: Figure 235. The ―false box jellyf
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Page 105 and 106: fishermen, especially those in Denm
Page 107 and 108: exploration of the wounds may be ne
Page 109 and 110: and continues until the leech is en
Page 111 and 112: Symptoms generally include pain, sw
Page 113 and 114: Recovery may take from hours to wee
Page 115 and 116: Swimmer’s itch (schistosome cerca
Page 117 and 118: United States Centers for Disease C
Page 119 and 120: L. hystrix: Southern Europe, Northe
Page 121 and 122: Sicarius spp.: Zimbabwe, southern A
Page 123 and 124: Family Scorpionidae Opistophthalmus
Page 125 and 126: Ixodes holocyclus (Australian paral
Page 127 and 128: Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps, hor
Page 129 and 130: Megalopyge opercularis (Puss caterp
Page 131 and 132: Lucilia (=Phaenicia) cuprina (sheep
Page 133 and 134: Glossina spp. (tse tse fly): Africa
Page 135 and 136: Family Tedaniidae Tedania ignis (fi
Page 137: Haementeria depressa: South America
Page 141 and 142: eschar- a sloughing or crusting whi
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