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PHOENIX (AP) - Three hospitals in Arizona, all in metropolitan Phoenix, are testing a new antivenin designed to counter the effects of scorpion bites in children.
The drug, Anascorp, is made in Mexico and not yet approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration. But a clinical trial overseen by researchers at the University of Arizona and the Arizona Poison Center in Tucson has seen the drug used in 50 Arizona children, with dramatic effects.
Dr. Bryan Tiffany, a physician at Chandler Regional Hospital, says the new antivenin appears to be extremely effective. He said the effects of a scorpion sting can be dramatic.
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