As he was healed of a poisonous snake bite by Re he became a symbol of hope in the gods looking after suffering humanity.

In July 1951, at the age of 10, Kovacs became involved in a violent fight with two older bullies, in which he partly blinded one with a cigarette and took a large bite out of the other's cheek in a blind rage.

In 1958, Allan became Frost's finance minister, and introduced the province's first sales tax, nicknamed the " Frost bite " at a rate of 3 %.

Initially, alcohol was used to supplement the crude oil refining capacity which the fledgling state had under its control, but as the Soviet and UK backed Nigerian army seized the oil producing regions, and with the Nigerian embargo beginning to bite, alcohol became the dominant source of fuel for the economy.

The goddess Hinenuitepo became angry at these unproductive people, so she created the sandfly to bite them and get them moving "

McGregor's forehead became badly swollen around a mosquito bite in Kazakhstan ( Claudio and Ewan joked that it could be a black widow spider bite ) which required treatment and threatened to curtail the adventure.

Hence the name of Mahboob Ali Pasha and the practice of spell of snake bite became famous throughout Hyderabad ".

Infection in a human occurs when a person is bitten by a flea that has been infected by biting a rodent that itself has been infected by the bite of a flea carrying the disease.

Bubonic plague is a disease caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium which is usually transmitted through the bite of an infected flea, the prime vector for Y. pestis.

It begins with a bite from an infected female mosquito, which introduces the protists via its saliva into the circulatory system, and ultimately to the liver where they mature and reproduce.

It is spread by the bite of infected mosquitoes, typically the Aedes or Culex genera.

** Rupert Brooke, English poet ( sepsis from an infected mosquito bite ) ( b. 1887 )

For example, a snake or spider bite victim will receive anti-venom to halt the spread of the toxins, while an infected patient will receive antibiotics.

He sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 28 February 1915 but developed sepsis from an infected mosquito bite.

People infected with R. rickettsii usually notice symptoms following an incubation period of one to two weeks after a tick bite.

Seeing the mark of the monkey's bite on his right hand, Stewart's men immediately hold down the infected explorer and amputate the appendage.

Despite the warnings of the chief scientist that the chimps are infected with a virus dubbed " Rage ," which he claims is highly contagious and only takes one bite to spread, the activists open the cages anyway and release the chimpanzees.

Many of the deer in Richmond Park are infected with a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi which can be transmitted to humans through a tick bite causing Lyme disease.

Ticks are vectors of a number of diseases, including Lyme disease, Q fever ( rare ; more commonly transmitted by infected excreta ), Colorado tick fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, African tick bite fever, tularemia, tick-borne relapsing fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, Tick paralysis and tick-borne meningoencephalitis, as well as bovine anaplasmosis.

On 25 March 1923 Carnarvon suffered a severe mosquito bite infected by a razor cut.

His death is most probably explained by blood poisoning ( progressing to pneumonia ) after accidentally shaving a mosquito bite infected with erysipelas.

During a blood meal, an infected fly ( genus Chrysops, day-biting flies ) introduces third-stage filarial larvae onto the skin of the human host, where they penetrate into the bite wound.

He is alleged variously to have held his breath ; to have become ill from eating raw octopus ; or to have suffered an infected dog bite.

Borrelia is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected ticks belonging to a few species of the genus Ixodes (" hard ticks ").

There have also been reports of an infected louse bite passing on the infection.

Humans are most often infected by tick bite or through handling an infected animal.

Chikungunya virus is indigenous to tropical Africa and Asia, where it is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected mosquitoes, usually of the genus Aedes.

Colorado tick fever ( CTF ) ( also called Mountain tick fever, American tick fever, and " American mountain tick fever ") is an obtuse viral infection transmitted from the bite of an infected tick ( Dermacentor andersoni ).

A mosquito vector can bite the infected human host, ingest the microfilariae, and thus repeat the life cycle of W. bancrofti.

Later, it is revealed that he is the same person as a Mr. Chater, the botanist who dies of a monkey bite in Martinique ( after he has travelled there with his wife and Captain Brice ).

Modernly significant pit bulls are: Weela, who saved thirty-one people, twenty-nine dogs, three horses and one cat ; Popsicle, a five-month-old puppy originally found nearly dead in a freezer, who grew to become one of the nation's most important police dogs ; Norton, who was placed in the Purina Animal Hall of Fame after he rescued his owner from a severe reaction to a spider bite ; Titan, who rescued his owner's wife, who would have died from an aneurysm and D-Boy, who took three bullets to save his family from an intruder with a gun.

One of the first published accounts involving a conviction based on bite marks as evidence was the “ Gorringe case ”, in 1948, in which pathologist Keith Simpson used bite marks on the breast of the victim to seal a murder conviction against Robert Gorringe for the murder of his wife Phyllis.

About ten years earlier, his wife died of a serpent's bite, and their son Rilian rode to exact revenge but disappeared.

Neocles died when he was young by the bite of a horse, and Diocles was adopted by his grandfather, Lysander.

Orestes then built a larger state in the Peloponnesus, but he died in Arcadia from a snake bite.

His thoroughbred stallion died within a few days after a bite from a Tsetse fly, many of his carriers deserted and the rest were decimated by tropical diseases.

Suetonius, writing about the same time as Plutarch, also says Cleopatra died from an asp bite.

While fleeing across the Libyan desert from angry sisters of the slain Gorgon Medusa, Mopsus died from the bite of a viper that had grown from a drop of Medusa's blood.

Drozd's arm was almost amputated needlessly because of what he claimed was a spider bite ( it turned out to be abscessed as a result of Drozd's heroin use ), Ivins was trapped in his car for several hours after a wheel spun off of another vehicle into his windshield, and Coyne's father died after a long battle with cancer.

Fred died on December 23, 2002 in a Birmingham animal hospital, from a mysterious animal bite.

In 2012, Pentecostal pastor and snake handler Mack Wolford died from a rattlesnake bite he had received while performing an outdoor service in West Virginia, as did his father in 1983.

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When Alexander I died following an infection from a monkey bite in 1920, Venezelos was voted out of office, and a plebiscite restored Constantine to the throne.

In January 1961 Elsa died from disease resulting from a tick bite.

Who died by a spider ’ s cruel bite.

On the accession of Ptolemy Philadelphus, Demetrius was sent into exile to Upper Egypt, where he is said to have died of the bite of a snake.

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* An earlier case was the so-called " Two-Headed Boy of Bengal ," who was born in 1783 and died of a cobra bite in 1787.

He died from the bite of a Mojave Rattlesnake he had attempted to catch.

Aspasia and Alexander were the parents of only one child, Princess Alexandra, born five months after Alexander's death at Tatoi ( her father having died of sepsis following a monkey bite ).

Snakebites were also used as a form of suicide, most notably by Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII, who reportedly died from the bite of an asp — likely an Egyptian cobra — after hearing of Mark Antony's death.

She died alone in a hotel on Majorca, from complications from the dog bite.

Harold Vilmes, one of the judges for the pageant, is said to have died from lyme's disease from a deer tick bite ; in turn, leaving his mentally-disabled little brother, Hank, their hardware store.

Two months later their 13-year-old daughter died from a tick bite and the Guthries moved back to Montana.

After a week of sickness caused by an insect bite, he died on August 30, 1943.

Unbeknownst to the survivors upstairs, the Coopers ' daughter Sarah has died from the bite on her arm and has become a zombie ; she attacks and bites her distraught mother, who does not defend herself.