Antivenom

Serotherapy No Help for Scorpion Stings

Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 11th, 1999

A needle prick can't cure a scorpion sting.

That's the word from Tunisia, where a clinical trial shows that the established treatment for scorpion stings works no better than placebo.

"We found no benefit in routine administration of scorpion antivenom after scorpion sting, irrespective of clinical severity," wrote Fekri Abroug of the intensive care unit of CHU F Bourguiba, Monastir, Tunisia, and colleagues.

Abroug et al. reported the trial data in the journal The Lancet ("Serotherapy in Scorpion Envenomation: A Randomized Controlled Trial," Lancet, 1999; 354:906-9).

The finding is of great importance to the...

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