5 Bizarre Side Effects That May Occur After Animal Bites

1. Allergy to red meat

Lyme disease, babesiosis and erliquiosis are some of the most common tick-borne diseases, but they can also trigger an unusual and potentially fatal allergic reaction if a person eats red meat. This was first described in 2007, but there have been cases all over the planet! And look, the bite may have happened even 6 months before the meat was eaten ...

2. Bone Dissolution

Osteolysis is a natural condition in which bone cells are resorbed by the body and may arise from advanced age or other factors such as marrow cancers, metastases or arthritis. A rarer condition to trigger the disease is when a camel bites a person and injects bacteria from their saliva that are capable of dissolving bones!

3. Prolonged Erection

If you have a problem with impotence, the bizarre "solution" may be through the bite of the arming spider. Pain, irritation, and increased blood pressure are the most common symptoms, but a prolonged and unpleasant erection may appear after the poison has penetrated. And look, this effect can take more than 4 hours to pass ...

4. Fear of dying

Irukandji is a tiny, fingernail-sized jellyfish that, if not killed, is capable of triggering Irukandji syndrome, which causes absurd pain, nausea, vomiting and despair! That's right: contact with jellyfish can release an excessive amount of norepinephrine hormone, which causes the person to panic even after they have recovered from the burn. And where is this jellyfish? In Australia, of course.

5. Absurd Pain

Do you think the platypus is cute? So be careful: it is one of the few species of mammals that have poison. The toxin can cause intense and absurd pain that can last a few months! And there's no pain reliever that works. How tense...

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