I developed a slight rash on one finger after a walk through the woods. I didn't remember being bitten by any insect so decided it was probably caused by something I had picked up in the forest. There has never been poison ivy in this area since I was a kid so it probably wasn't that. Got on the Internet and the sites I found said that the photo-dermatitis caused by wild parsnip bubbled up like a burn but didn't spread. Gradually - over days - the bubbling was spreading. Could be flesh-eating bacteria. However anyone who noticed it asked if I had burned myself on the oven. Figured that it was more likely that the Internet wasn't infallible than that I had picked up a flesh-eating bacteria. After a week the bubbling stopped, the top skin flaked off, and I just have a light-colored scar now. There's wild parsnip some where out there. If I can find it again, it's gone.
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