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Snakebite poisoning in Spain
Martín-Sierra C, Nogué-Xarau S, Pinillos Echevarría MA, Rey Pecharromán JM
Mutua ASEPEYO, Teruel, Spain. Área de Urgencias, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain. Servicio de Urgencias Generales, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital García Orcoyen Estella-Lizarra, Navarra, Spain.
Emergencies due to snakebites, although unusual in Spain, are potentially serious. Of the 13 species native to the Iberian peninsula, only 5 are poisonous: 2 belong to the Colubridae family and 3 to the Viperidae family. Bites from these venemous snakes can be life-threatening, but the venomous species can be easily identified by attending to certain
physical traits. Signs denoting poisoning from vipers, and the appropriate treatment to follow, have changed in recent years.