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Fatal multiple organ failure following massive hornet stings
N Watemberg1, Z Weizman, E Shahak
1Soroka Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Journal of Toxicology. Clinical Toxicology
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
We describe a fatal outcome in a three-year-old child following massive stings by the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis). The primary clinical features were coma, respiratory failure, coagulopathy, renal failure and liver dysfunction. On postmortem the main organs involved were brain, lungs, kidney and liver.