Case presentationĪ 2.5-year old unspayed female German shepherd dog weighing 22 kg was presented to the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH), Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan, with bloody vomiting, hematuria and incoordination immediately after a massive attack of honeybees that stung its face, tongue, ears, fore and hind limbs, teats and external genitalia ( Figure 1). The present case report describes a fatal case of honeybee stings in a German shepherd dog along with a review of the literature. While migrating, swarms may also attack livestock populations. Introduction of bees in urban areas is also posing threats to humans and animals. This is usually a problem of rural areas, public parks and groves where bee swarms are found hanging from tree branches [ 1 1 Muhammad G, Saqib M, Mallick SH: Honey-bee stinging (apisination): what the medical and veterinary professionals ought to know? Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 2011,44(6):755-761.- 6 6 Santos LD, Pieroni M, Menegasso ARS, Pinto JRAS, Palma MS: A new scenario of bioprospecting of Hymenoptera venoms through proteomic approach. Although notification is not compulsory, each year approximately 15,000 attacks occur, causing an estimated number of 140 deaths in Brazil ĥ Almeida RA, Olivo TE, Mendes RP, Barraviera SR, Souza LR, Martins JG, Hashimoto M, Fabris VE, Ferreira Junior RS, Barraviera B: Africanized honeybee stings: how to treat them. For example, 4,774 and 10,026 sting cases were registered respectively in 20 in that country In Brazil, the prevalence of Africanized honeybee stings has shown significant increase year after year.

In Canada and USA, the number of deaths attributed to bee and wasp stings annually are one and more than thirty individuals, respectively The literature provides few studies related to the clinicopathological picture of animals stung by insects, especially honeybees. Pakistan Vet J 2000, 20:209-211., 2 2 Ferreira Junior RS, Almeida RA, Barraviera SR, Barraviera B:Historical perspective and human consequences of Africanized bee stings in the Americas.

Although honeybees usually do not sting until they are provoked, their stings threaten lives of humans and other animals [ 1 1 Muhammad G, Saqib M, Mallick SH: Honey-bee stinging (apisination): what the medical and veterinary professionals ought to know?

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