Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 6 , Pages 824-829 , December 2009

Mad Honey Sex: Therapeutic Misadventures From an Ancient Biological Weapon

  • Ahmet Demircan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Ahmet Demircan, MD, Gazi University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, 06500 Besevler-Ankara-Turkey; +90 312 202 50 45, Fax +90 312 223 05 28
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  • Ayfer Keleş, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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  • Fikret Bildik, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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  • Gülbin Aygencel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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  • N. Özgür Doğan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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  • Hernán F. Gómez, MD

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI

Received 16 March 2009 ,Revised 24 April 2009 ,Accepted 15 June 2009.

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 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.

 Supervising editor: Richard C. Dart, MD, PhD.

 Author contributions: AD, AK, and FB conceived the case series portion of the study. AD, GA, and NOD undertook data extraction of medical records. AD and HFG designed the survey portion of the investigation. AD and HFG drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. AD takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

 Publication date: Available online August 15, 2009.

PII: S0196-0644(09)00641-6

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.06.010

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 6 , Pages 824-829 , December 2009

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