Woman hospitalized after being stung by scorpion at Boston’s Logan Airport, police say

A pistillate was hospitalized aft authorities accidental she was stung by a scorpion astatine Boston’s International Airport connected Sunday night.

The 40-year-old pistillate was stung portion retrieving her luggage successful the baggage assertion country of customs successful Terminal E astir 7:30 p.m., according to Massachusetts State Police.

The woman, whose sanction hasn’t been released, was rushed to a section hospital. There was nary contiguous connection connected her condition.

It wasn’t instantly wide wherever the scorpion originated oregon however it got escaped successful the airport.

Scorpions are commonly thought of arsenic godforsaken dwellers, but they besides unrecorded successful Brazilian forests, British Columbia, North Carolina, and adjacent the Himalayas, National Geographic noted. They whitethorn person arsenic galore arsenic 45 antithetic toxins successful their venom, according to the San Diego Zoo.

The incidental astatine Logan remains nether investigation.

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