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Only the male platypus is capable of hurting a human. If a human interferes with a platypus to the point where he or she is injected with venom, the consequences can be extremely painful. Platypus venom contains a neurotoxin which induces paralysis, as well as a protein which lowers blood pressure, also inducing shock. People who have been "spurred" by a platypus report that the pain is strong enough to cause vomiting that may last for days, weeks or sometimes even months. The pain cannot be relieved by morphine and other standard pain-killing drugs. It seems the only way it can be relieved is through anaesthesia of the main nerve from the spur site.

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