van Moppes N M, Kunst M W
Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis, afd. Inwendige Geneeskunde, Beverwijk.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 1994 Dec 24;138(52):2590-1.
A 16-year-old girl was stung in the Netherlands by a poisonous scorpion which had travelled in her suitcase from Turkey. Although she came to the emergency department immediately and had the (dead) scorpion with her, it proved to be extremely difficult to devise effective therapy quickly. There were only three ampoules of antiserum in the country, none of them against the scorpion concerned: Buthus gibbosus, a relatively dangerous species. Eventually, antiserum was flewn in from the Institut Pasteur near Paris, it was available 16 h after the patient came to the hospital. The antiserum was not used as the patient gradually recovered.
一名16岁女孩在荷兰被一只毒蝎子蜇伤，这只蝎子是藏在她从土耳其带来的行李箱中来到荷兰的。尽管她立即前往了急诊科，并且还带着那只（已死的）蝎子，但事实证明，要迅速制定出有效的治疗方案极其困难。该国仅有三瓶抗蛇毒血清，且都不是针对蜇伤她的那种蝎子的：即相对危险的北非肥尾蝎。最终，从巴黎附近的巴斯德研究所空运来了抗蛇毒血清，在患者入院16小时后送达。由于患者逐渐康复，抗蛇毒血清未被使用。
