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Los Angeles passenger onboard Alaska Airlines flight to Portland stung by scorpion

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Zaphod58

posted on Feb, 15 2015 @ 10:40 PM
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Could have been worse.


dreamingawake

posted on Feb, 16 2015 @ 03:21 AM
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Hitched a ride as other insects or maybe was previously in a container. Depends on what species it is to help determine how it got there. The NW has the Vejovis boreus (Girard) or Northern Scorpion for example. List of scorpions by state.
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skunkape23

posted on Feb, 16 2015 @ 03:52 AM
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Thanks, that was a handy reference.
I'm pretty sure it was the centruroides vittatus that got me.
It got me in the upper/inner thigh.
Felt like a lit cigar being held to my skin for a good half hour.
I got sweaty chills and my saliva got thick and foamy.
I would prefer to not experience it again.
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dreamingawake

posted on Feb, 17 2015 @ 01:15 AM
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NP



Updates are saying the scorpion was "picked up" in Mexico.


"The geography of scorpions in Mexico"- here




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