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From: [email protected] (G T Clark)
Subject: Re: centi- and milli- pedes

[email protected] (Rebecca Snyder) writes:

>Does anyone know how posionous centipedes and millipedes are? If someone
>was bitten, how soon would medical treatment be needed, and what would
>be liable to happen to the person?

>(Just for clarification - I have NOT been bitten by one of these,  but my
>house seems to be infested, and I want to know 'just in case'.)

>Rebecca


	Millipedes, I understand, are vegetarian, and therefore almost
certainly will not bite and are not poisonous. Centipedes are
carnivorous, and although I don't have any absolute knowledge on this, I
would tend to think that you're in no danger from anything but a
concerted assault by several million of them.

			G.