Brazilian yellow scorpion

Doole tooke

Ina fiɗa

Tooke ina yalta e fiɗirgal.

Hol ko tooke mum (ŋatol walla fiɗol) waɗata?

Its venom contains an excitatory neurotoxin, which attacks the nerves that control involuntary body functions and releases adrenaline and related chemicals. Mild cases cause mainly localised pain, while more serious cases can bring fever, sweating, tremors, vomiting, agitation, a fast heartbeat and inflammation of the pancreas. Deaths can occur within 1 to 6 hours, or 12 to 14 hours, depending on age, health and the amount of venom injected.1

Hol no nde woni bone e yimɓe?

It is responsible for more medically significant accidents than any other scorpion in Brazil, and most of the country's fatal scorpion cases. Mortality rates are 1.0 to 2.0% among children and elderly people. In a nationwide study from 2000 to 2012, Brazil recorded 482,616 scorpion accidents and 728 deaths, and this species was believed to cause most of those deaths.1

Hol ko nde waɗata si nde hulii?

It uses its tail barb to deliver defensive strikes.1