Highly toxic patient suffers the bite of a highly venomous scorpion in Hamburger Hotel

Highly venomous scorpion stings woman in hamburger hotel room
Most Germans are probably only informed about what they should do to protect themselves from poisonous animals before traveling to tropical countries. In this country, one is finally safe from the deadly dangers, one might think. This is not always the case, as shown by a recent case from Hamburg. There, a young woman in her hotel room was stung by a highly poisonous scorpion.

Toxic animal in the hotel room
Very few people in this country learn about how to protect themselves from poisonous animals and snake bites. Only before certain long-distance travel information is obtained. In Germany, the dangers that emanate from animals are finally very manageable. The fact that this is not always the case was now apparent in Hamburg. There, a woman in her hotel room was stung by a highly poisonous scorpion.

In Hamburg, a woman in her hotel room was stung by a highly poisonous scorpion. The animal had probably hidden in her shoe. How it got there is still unclear. (Image: Irina K./fotolia.com)

Scorpio hidden in the shoe
The fire brigade Hamburg had to move on Thursday to a medical emergency in a hotel at Hamburg Central Station, in which a woman had been stung by a scorpion.

As the woman told the emergency attendants, she wanted to put on her shoes when she felt "a resistance and a short pang afterwards.".

When she shook out the shoe, a scorpion came to light. "Immediately she put a beaker over the scorpion, so that it could not escape and was thus secured," it says in the message from the fire department, which was published on the page "Press Portal".

Patient discharged from hospital
The patient was given a venous access and applied with antiallergic drugs. She was then escorted to a nearby emergency hospital for further treatment and observation.

The animal was secured by a reptile specialist in a transparent transport box and taken to a shelter.

As the "world confesses", the 23-year-old from Frankfurt am Main, according to the Hamburg police has now been released from the hospital and returned intact to their hometown.

According to other media reports, the woman is 35 years old.

Sting of the sand scorpion can end fatally
The about four centimeters long scorpion should be a sand scorpion, which occurs in North and Central America and whose "highly poisonous sting, depending on the amount of poison, even deadly can end," reports the fire department.

Police have been investigating how the animal may have got into the hotel. As the news agency dpa reports, a spokeswoman said on Friday about the possible origin of the scorpion: "At us, no one has reported that misses such an animal."

The stung woman had loud Welt said that neither she nor her friend in recent months have traveled to countries where scorpions are based.

If someday a potential owner should report, he could face a criminal complaint for assault. In 2013, the Hamburg Hazard Animal Act (HmbGefahrtierG) entered into force in the Hanseatic city.

This also states that husbandry facilities such as terrariums "are designed so that the animals can not escape," it says on the city portal of the Hanseatic city.

In any case, it is more likely that the animal could have got into the hotel through other guests' luggage. (Ad)