3-Year-Old Dies After Scorpion Crawls Into Her Bed

A tragic incident unfolded last week in Brazil when a three-year-old girl lost her life after being stung by a scorpion. The toddler, Maria Fernanda Brito da Silva, was asleep when the venomous creature crawled under her clothes and stung her. Despite receiving immediate medical attention at the Hospital Regional de Mato Grosso do Sul in Campo Grande, Maria succumbed to a cardiac arrest on October 1. Maria was stung on September 25 at her …

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