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Old 03-07-2009, 09:48   #9
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Re: Horse flies again.

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Originally Posted by yerself View Post
I'll give you two guesses as to which gender of horse-fly inflicts these bites and it's not the males.



You most certainly don't. Same happened to me last year, hand swollen to about twice size and high dose antibiotics. The doctor said if the antibiotics hadn't started to take effect within 48hrs I would have to be admitted to hospital and have intravenous medication.
The female of the species is more deadlier than the male I seem to remember somebody once said yerself
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