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Bernhard Detlef - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Dispersal of two moderately venomous spiders Cheiracanthium mildei and C. punctorium in Saxony and Brandenburg (Araneae: Miturgidae)
    2010
    Co-Authors: Muster Christoph, Herrmann Andreas, Otto Stefan, Bernhard Detlef
    Abstract:

    In the summers of 2006 and 2007 presumed bites of Cheiracanthium spiders triggered Mass Hysteria in Austria and some regions of Germany, including northern Saxonia. Here we report the first records of Cheiracanthium mildei L. Koch, 1864 from Saxony and new records of C. punctorium (Villers, 1789) from Saxony and Brandenburg. C. punctorium is probably a native species in southern Germany. It shows a moderate area expansion that could be driven by global warming. Further records in north-western Saxony are to be expected. By contrast, C. mildei has to be regarded an invasive alien species that has rapidly spread into Central Europe from the Mediterranean. Leipzig is the north-easternmost locality in Europe reached so far, a further 230 km away from Nuremberg, the leading edge in 2006. A number of records in different districts of Leipzig suggest that the species is already established in the town. We also report verified bites of both species. The mild to moderate symptoms are in accordance with recent literature reviews

  • Zur Ausbreitung humanmedizinisch bedeutsamer Dornfinger-Arten Cheiracanthium mildei und C. punctorium in Sachsen und Brandenburg (Araneae: Miturgidae)
    Arachnologische Gesellschaft (ARAGES), 2008
    Co-Authors: Muster Christoph, Herrmann Andreas, Otto Stefan, Bernhard Detlef
    Abstract:

    In the summers of 2006 and 2007 presumed bites of Cheiracanthium spiders triggered Mass Hysteria in Austria and some regions of Germany, including northern Saxonia. Here we report the first records of Cheiracanthium mildei L. Koch, 1864 from Saxony and new records of C. punctorium (Villers, 1789) from Saxony and Brandenburg. C. punctorium is probably a native species in southern Germany. It shows a moderate area expansion that could be driven by global warming. Further records in north-western Saxony are to be expected. By contrast, C. mildei has to be regarded an invasive alien species that has rapidly spread into Central Europe from the Mediterranean. Leipzig is the north-easternmost locality in Europe reached so far, a further 230 km away from Nuremberg, the leading edge in 2006. A number of records in different districts of Leipzig suggest that the species is already established in the town. We also report verified bites of both species. The mild to moderate symptoms are in accordance with recent literature reviews

Detlef Bernhard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • zur ausbreitung humanmedizinisch bedeutsamer dornfinger arten cheiracanthium mildei und c punctorium in sachsen und brandenburg araneae miturgidae
    Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2008
    Co-Authors: Christoph Muster, Andreas Herrmann, Stefan Otto, Detlef Bernhard
    Abstract:

    Dispersal of two moderately venomous spiders Cheiracanthium mildei and C. punctorium in Saxony and Brandenburg (Araneae: Miturgidae). In the summers of 2006 and 2007 presumed bites of Cheiracanthium spiders triggered Mass Hysteria in Austria and some regions of Germany, including northern Saxonia. Here we report the first records of Cheiracanthium mildei L. Koch, 1864 from Saxony and new records of C. punctorium (Villers, 1789) from Saxony and Brandenburg. C. punctorium is probably a native species in southern Germany. It shows a moderate area expansion that could be driven by global warming. Further records in north-western Saxony are to be expected. By contrast, C. mildei has to be regarded an invasive alien species that has rapidly spread into Central Europe from the Mediterranean. Leipzig is the north-easternmost locality in Europe reached so far, a further 230 km away from Nuremberg, the leading edge in 2006. A number of records in different districts of Leipzig suggest that the species is already established in the town. We also report verified bites of both species. The mild to moderate symptoms are in accordance with recent literature reviews.

Muster Christoph - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Dispersal of two moderately venomous spiders Cheiracanthium mildei and C. punctorium in Saxony and Brandenburg (Araneae: Miturgidae)
    2010
    Co-Authors: Muster Christoph, Herrmann Andreas, Otto Stefan, Bernhard Detlef
    Abstract:

    In the summers of 2006 and 2007 presumed bites of Cheiracanthium spiders triggered Mass Hysteria in Austria and some regions of Germany, including northern Saxonia. Here we report the first records of Cheiracanthium mildei L. Koch, 1864 from Saxony and new records of C. punctorium (Villers, 1789) from Saxony and Brandenburg. C. punctorium is probably a native species in southern Germany. It shows a moderate area expansion that could be driven by global warming. Further records in north-western Saxony are to be expected. By contrast, C. mildei has to be regarded an invasive alien species that has rapidly spread into Central Europe from the Mediterranean. Leipzig is the north-easternmost locality in Europe reached so far, a further 230 km away from Nuremberg, the leading edge in 2006. A number of records in different districts of Leipzig suggest that the species is already established in the town. We also report verified bites of both species. The mild to moderate symptoms are in accordance with recent literature reviews

  • Zur Ausbreitung humanmedizinisch bedeutsamer Dornfinger-Arten Cheiracanthium mildei und C. punctorium in Sachsen und Brandenburg (Araneae: Miturgidae)
    Arachnologische Gesellschaft (ARAGES), 2008
    Co-Authors: Muster Christoph, Herrmann Andreas, Otto Stefan, Bernhard Detlef
    Abstract:

    In the summers of 2006 and 2007 presumed bites of Cheiracanthium spiders triggered Mass Hysteria in Austria and some regions of Germany, including northern Saxonia. Here we report the first records of Cheiracanthium mildei L. Koch, 1864 from Saxony and new records of C. punctorium (Villers, 1789) from Saxony and Brandenburg. C. punctorium is probably a native species in southern Germany. It shows a moderate area expansion that could be driven by global warming. Further records in north-western Saxony are to be expected. By contrast, C. mildei has to be regarded an invasive alien species that has rapidly spread into Central Europe from the Mediterranean. Leipzig is the north-easternmost locality in Europe reached so far, a further 230 km away from Nuremberg, the leading edge in 2006. A number of records in different districts of Leipzig suggest that the species is already established in the town. We also report verified bites of both species. The mild to moderate symptoms are in accordance with recent literature reviews

Leslie P Boss - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Printed in U.S.A Epidemic Hysteria: A Review of the Published Literature
    2015
    Co-Authors: Leslie P Boss
    Abstract:

    Epidemic Hysteria, known by multiple synonymous terms, including Mass Hysteria, Mass psychogenic ill-ness, and Mass sociogenic illness, has been defined as a constellation of symptoms suggestive of organi

  • epidemic Hysteria a review of the published literature
    Epidemiologic Reviews, 1997
    Co-Authors: Leslie P Boss
    Abstract:

    Epidemic Hysteria, known by multiple synonymous terms, including Mass Hysteria, Mass psychogenic illness, and Mass sociogenic illness, has been defined as a constellation of symptoms suggestive of organic illness, but without an identifiable cause, that occurs between two or more people who share beliefs related to those symptoms (1). Rather than being viewed as a collection of people suffering from individual Hysteria (or conversion disorder), epidemic Hysteria is instead seen as a social phenomenon involving otherwise healthy people (2). It has been described in humans as "very similar to a stampede in the animal world" (3, p. 301). It has also been called a culture-bound stress reaction (4), in which two separate mechanisms are at work: an anxiety variant, in which abdominal pain, headache, dizziness, fainting, nausea, and hyperventilation are the most common symptoms, and the motor variant, with common symptoms of hysterical dancing, convulsions, laughing, and pseudoseizures (5, 6). Although it has been proposed that in modern Western society the "more primitive" motor variant essentially has been replaced in form by the anxiety variant (7), examples of this motor variant continue to be reported (8). Numerous reports of this collective behavioral phenomenon date back to as early as 1374 (9). Over the years, concern about a number of issues—water pollution in Camelford, England (10); the phantom anesthetist of Matoon (11); the invasion from Mars (12); and the Royal Free epidemic of benign myalgic encephalomyelitis (13)—spawned large, diffuse outbreaks of epidemic illness. Such illnesses often occur after some environmental "trigger," a significant emergency response to that environmental event, and

Christoph Muster - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • zur ausbreitung humanmedizinisch bedeutsamer dornfinger arten cheiracanthium mildei und c punctorium in sachsen und brandenburg araneae miturgidae
    Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2008
    Co-Authors: Christoph Muster, Andreas Herrmann, Stefan Otto, Detlef Bernhard
    Abstract:

    Dispersal of two moderately venomous spiders Cheiracanthium mildei and C. punctorium in Saxony and Brandenburg (Araneae: Miturgidae). In the summers of 2006 and 2007 presumed bites of Cheiracanthium spiders triggered Mass Hysteria in Austria and some regions of Germany, including northern Saxonia. Here we report the first records of Cheiracanthium mildei L. Koch, 1864 from Saxony and new records of C. punctorium (Villers, 1789) from Saxony and Brandenburg. C. punctorium is probably a native species in southern Germany. It shows a moderate area expansion that could be driven by global warming. Further records in north-western Saxony are to be expected. By contrast, C. mildei has to be regarded an invasive alien species that has rapidly spread into Central Europe from the Mediterranean. Leipzig is the north-easternmost locality in Europe reached so far, a further 230 km away from Nuremberg, the leading edge in 2006. A number of records in different districts of Leipzig suggest that the species is already established in the town. We also report verified bites of both species. The mild to moderate symptoms are in accordance with recent literature reviews.