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More than 500 people have been by scorpions in Aswan, Egypt. Heavy rain hundreds of the eight-legged creatures into the streets and into people's homes earlier this week. Many of the people who were stung to go to hospital. Doctors them anti-venom injections. The people able to go home after the jab. Those stung by the scorpions had symptoms including severe pain, fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. The Health Ministry has hospitals on alert just in case more people are stung. A weather expert farmers in the area to careful, especially when planting crops. In addition, he asked people to be careful of snakes, which were also after the rain.

People in Aswan are worried because the scorpions in their town very dangerous. They are Arabian fat-tailed scorpions. Their nickname is "man-killer". The Al Jazeera news agency says they are among the most dangerous scorpions in the world. The venom in their sting very poisonous and can a human within an hour. However, fat-tailed scorpions in the mountains and rarely into contact with humans. The weather expert people to proper footwear when they went outside to getting bitten. He said the scorpion numbers would down after the rainwater up. Less than one per cent of the world's scorpion species are deadly.