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Trivia # 151: Injuries caused by marine life

7 April, 2010
Toxicological Trivia from April 07, 2010: Of all the animals in the seas, some are fitted with elements capable of inflicting injury to man, and only a few are potentially fatal, depending on exposure time, the mechanism of injury and the susceptibility of the person that experience it. This is especially true in tropical waters, although, except special occasions mating and breeding seasons, animals tend to flee tfrom he man. The causal mechanisms of injury are:
a) Intake and contact;
b) Bite:
c) Both previous assertions are correct.
Trivia # 151: Injuries caused by marine life
Erizo de mar
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Correct answer c. Read morein Spanish news: Not only with jellyfish injured men injured at sea
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