Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings

STARTLING TRUE CASES OF BITE ATTACKS RESULTING INFECTIONS AND ENSUING TREATMENTS---From ticks ants and flying bats to elephant seals Komodo dragons rhesus macaques and deadliest of all humans.Weve all been bitten. And we all have stories.The bite attacks that Pamela Nagami M.D. has chosen to write about in Bitten take place in big cities small towns and remote villages around the world and throughout history locales as familiar as New York or Hollywood or exotic as Africa the Middle East or Indonesia. They include a six-year-old girl who descended into weeks of extreme lassitude from a tick bite; a diabetic in the West Indies who awoke to find a rat eating two of his toes; a California man who developed flesh-eating strep following a penile bite; and more.With reports from medical journals case histories colleagues and her own twenty-five-year career as a practicing physician and infectious diseases specialist Pamela Nagami offers readers intrigued by infection disease and mesmerized by creatures in the wild a compulsively readable narrative that is entertaining sometimes disturbing and always engrossing.