This is strange to me. In the USA, where I group up in a rural area with plenty of poisonous snakes and spiders- shit that could kill a child with one bite. It was a sort of rule that if you got bit by something you thought was poisonous, try to capture the thing that bit you alive and intact and bring it to the hospital with you.
This eliminates the need for screening your blood for a huge variety of toxins. They can look at the spider in the jar, say "Oh yeah, that's a brown recluse, good thing you came here. Nurse, go get the antidote, please."
I knew a farmer who got bit by a poisonous snake. He killed it immediately after being bitten by stomping the shit out of it. He drove himself to the hospital, his leg swelling like a balloon, dead snake in the passenger's seat. I imagine him stumbling into the ER waving the snake around, splattering its blood everywhere. "Halp me, I've been bit!" Pretty funny to imagine...
Now picture this, but with like a hundred migrants from Africa and the middle east. They have dozens of snakes with them in the ER waiting room. Lmao
BloodyComet 2 points 1 week ago
This is strange to me. In the USA, where I group up in a rural area with plenty of poisonous snakes and spiders- shit that could kill a child with one bite. It was a sort of rule that if you got bit by something you thought was poisonous, try to capture the thing that bit you alive and intact and bring it to the hospital with you.
This eliminates the need for screening your blood for a huge variety of toxins. They can look at the spider in the jar, say "Oh yeah, that's a brown recluse, good thing you came here. Nurse, go get the antidote, please."
I knew a farmer who got bit by a poisonous snake. He killed it immediately after being bitten by stomping the shit out of it. He drove himself to the hospital, his leg swelling like a balloon, dead snake in the passenger's seat. I imagine him stumbling into the ER waving the snake around, splattering its blood everywhere. "Halp me, I've been bit!" Pretty funny to imagine...
Now picture this, but with like a hundred migrants from Africa and the middle east. They have dozens of snakes with them in the ER waiting room. Lmao