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To: BipolarBob

What kind of spider?


16 posted on 12/02/2022 4:06:29 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: griswold3
He said: "Had he not been bitten by an invertebrate, possibly a spider, he would not have died at that time."
23 posted on 12/02/2022 4:20:30 PM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: griswold3

They said common household. I live in black widow/ hobo area. A little south of here it’s brown recluse. Allergies and infections can probably raise an ordinary spider to a new threat level. The infection is more likely the terminal threat. No treatment is pretty serious. I’ve been getting tetanus shots since I was a kid. Never let a scratch go untreated or ignored is my moto. I wish I could still get methylate. JMO


25 posted on 12/02/2022 4:31:24 PM PST by Equine1952
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To: griswold3

“It was found to be a common house spider...”


32 posted on 12/02/2022 5:32:04 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: griswold3

Based on the description of the bite site after a day or three, it was probably a brown recluse spider. They are about the size of a US dime, but pack a mean venom that will eat at the flesh. ...One of my employees was bitten on her belly while sleeping. She was in hospital for three days and was given lots of antibiotics to get rid of the infection.


58 posted on 12/02/2022 9:12:15 PM PST by octex
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To: griswold3
What kind of spider?

The "brown recluse" in the United States would cause that sort of wound.

63 posted on 12/03/2022 5:24:50 AM PST by GingisK
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