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Poisonous Caterpillers Kill Woman

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

A Canadian woman died last year after stepping barefoot on several caterpillars, doctors reported in a teaching case published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

The 22-year old woman from Alberta died 10 days after stepping on five caterpillars while on a trip to northeastern Peru.

The woman felt immediate pain in her right foot, which spread to her thigh, and later developed a headache. The pain in her leg was worse when she walked on it.

The leg pain and headache disappeared within 12 hours so she did not seek treatment while in Peru, the doctors reported in their case study.

Knives, Nails, Screws Removed From Man’s Stomach

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Doctors in Peru removed knives, nails, screws and other objects from the stomach of a metal-eating man, the Daily Mirror reported.

Luis Zarate, 38, went to doctors with severe stomach pain. Doctors were stunned when an X-ray revealed that the man had swallowed a knife, nails, screws, a watch and even barbed wire.

“There were 17 strange objects found at the level of his stomach and colon,” said Julio Acevedo, who performed Zarate’s surgery. “The objects had caused his stomach to expand.”

Zarate is recovering at the hospital in Trujillo, a coastal town in northwestern Peru.

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