Wilderness and recreational neurology.
With increased access to once remote regions of the planet and renewed interest in exploring natural surroundings, previously geographically isolated and rare neurologic conditions can be encountered in any patient population. Rare envenomations and poisonings, once the purview of the tropical neurologist, now can be encountered by travelers to areas where creatures that have developed specialized defenses are endemic. Recognition, therefore, of the potentially neurotoxic fauna and flora in these areas holds value, even for the urban neurologist.
Malek
Ali R
AR
Department of Neurology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
Hoffmann
Michael
M
D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D009462:Neurology / Q000639:trends*; D009498:Neurotoxins / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011998:Recreation
D009498:Neurotoxins