{"id":471522,"date":"2023-03-27T15:43:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T18:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=471522"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T18:43:51","slug":"beware-of-scorpions-spiders-and-lionfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/beware-of-scorpions-spiders-and-lionfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of scorpions, spiders, and lionfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2007 and 2019, there were 2.1 million accidents involving venomous animals in Brazil. There were an average of 175,000 incidents per year\u2014480 every day\u2014according to a survey coordinated by Leonardo Kohara Melchior, a veterinarian from the Federal University of Acre (<em>Epidemiologia e Servi\u00e7os de Sa\u00fade<\/em>, November). Most involved scorpions (1.1 million cases), mainly in the Northeast and Southeast of the country. Snakes were the second leading cause of accidents, with a total of 365,000 cases, followed by spiders with 363,000 cases\u2014two-thirds of which occurred in southern Brazil. The number of accidents involving venomous animals trended upwards in the years studied, with the exception of snake bites. In another study, scientists from S\u00e3o Paulo State University (UNESP) and the Federal University of Cear\u00e1 (UFC) reported on Brazil\u2019s first case of poisoning by a wild lionfish (<em>Pterois<\/em> spp.). Originally from the Indo-Pacific, the species has been spreading along the Brazilian coast (<em>Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical<\/em>, October).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were 2.1 million accidents involving venomous animals in Brazil between 2007 and 2019","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":471523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[206,236,260,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-471522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity","tag-physiology","tag-public-health","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471527,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471522\/revisions\/471527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471522"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=471522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}