Bee stings and Lymes

[EdS]

AfricanISED honey bee is a hybrid between the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) and the African honey bee (Apis mellifera scutella).

The African bee is more aggressive although they have similar stings.

While attacks are bad they not 100% fatal:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/killer-bee-attack-arizona_n_5956544.html

 

[santaman2000]

AfricanISED honey bee is a hybrid between the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) and the African honey bee (Apis mellifera scutella).

The African bee is more aggressive although they have similar stings.

While attacks are bad they not 100% fatal:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/killer-bee-attack-arizona_n_5956544.html

That article fails to mention that the survivors were the ones able to get to cover.

 

[Goatboy]

A wee seasonal reminder.
As some of you know I'm not the biggest arachnid fan and ticks are really on my hit list due to lymes nearly being the end of me.
I'm just back in and have done a strip search as I picked my first tick of the year off today. Not on me, got onto my mate off of his dog.
So a good time to do some reading up and starting to keep an eye out both when out and when you get back. Easy to avoid and easy to treat if you do get ticks or lymes but you do have to be vigilant. So take care and keep your eyes peeled.
Cheers,
GB.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[demographic]

So what's the sample size for this experiment in medicine?
How many people were involved in the bee sting trials? Was in double blind tested with a placebo in the numbers?

Or, was it just one person, who may or may not have been stung by a raging steroid using crazy Bonkers African Honey bee, or may have been stung by a pretty normal bee.


What I'm getting at is that there's a lot of difference between reliable evidence with repeatable results and random one offs with too many variables to draw a conclusion from.

 

[santaman2000]

....Or, was it just one person, who may or may not have been stung by a raging steroid using crazy Bonkers African Honey bee, or may have been stung by a pretty normal bee......

There's no difference between the sting of an individual African bee and that of a European on. The former is more dangerous then the latter due to the sheer numbers and persistence in an attack. Otherwise one bee sting from either is just that; one bee sting from a single bee.

 

[demographic]

There's no difference between the sting of an individual African bee and that of a European on. The former is more dangerous then the latter due to the sheer numbers and persistence in an attack. Otherwise one bee sting from either is just that; one bee sting from a single bee.

Err, yeah. I'd kind of worked that bit out.
My point is that with a sample size of one person in a medical trial. Its a bit of a leap to draw conclusions about the sting curing Lymes.

That's where this bit comes in...

What I'm getting at is that there's a lot of difference between reliable evidence with repeatable results and random one offs with too many variables to draw a conclusion from.

Now it could well be something that warrants further investigation but I'd hang fire with the idea that its a perfect cure just yet.

 

[santaman2000]

Yeah agreed.