When anthrax spores infect the skin, the infection starts out like a small itchy insect bite.
"That's an insect bite?" "Maybe it was a flea," she said.
Illness from an insect bite provided an excuse to leave work for a day or two.
But that 1979 performance of the three-act Lulu came 44 years after Berg died, apparently from blood poisoning caused by an insect bite.
A spokeswoman for London zoo said that although the spiders in the exhibition were harmless to humans, any insect bite could cause an allergic reaction.
"Sometimes it's not the insect bite, they just want to be heard," said Dr. Rabindranath Sansores, a doctor for the state government working in the shelter.
Dacre told me that many come to her after a bereavement or other illness, even a bad insect bite – something that knocks the world off-balance.
A skin infection, possibly begun by an insect bite, left my inner thigh swollen and sensitive and finally forced me to visit a dermatologist.
The zoo said in a statement on Wednesday: "We cared for a visitor on 12 September who reported an insect bite to our first aider.
Ms. Anderson said one of her daughters had an insect bite and Mr. Muhammad produced a bottle of Vitamin E ointment to treat it.
Some described the itch as similar to an "insect bite" or like "poison ivy".
