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Laura
Laura asked in Science & MathematicsBotany · 3 weeks ago

Would a scientist let herself get bit by a poisonous insect for research?

Or a parasite or whatever else. 

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  • The First Dragon
    Lv 7
    1 week ago

    Some have been known to. But if the toxin is delivered by a bite, the insect is venomous, not poisonous.  Like a bee.  

    A poisonous insect is one that will make you sick if you eat it - or too many of them.  Like a ladybug.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    2 weeks ago

    They do it all the time. 

  • οικος
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    Yes. Clonorchis sinensis, the Chinese liver fluke was brought into the USA for research by a parasitologist who deliberately ate infected water chestnuts. Live flukes in a jar would have been confiscated at Customs.

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