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Venomous Spiders Overrunning Austria [ICK! Alert]
Fox News Online ^
| 8/4/06
| AP
Posted on 08/04/2006 12:06:02 PM PDT by TheBigB
VIENNA, Austria — An eight-legged invasion is giving some Austrians the creeps.
The venomous yellow sack spider, whose painful bite can cause headache and nausea, has become the talk of the town since several people were bitten earlier this summer.
Reports of spider sightings have dominated local media, triggering hundreds of calls to a Vienna poison hotline and prompting the government to issue a plea for calm.
"The bites of a yellow sack spider are indeed painful but not deadly," Health Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat said in a statement. "If you are bitten, please don't panic and in case of discomfort immediately contact a doctor."
Underscoring the hysteria, 190 people who feared they might have been bitten went Wendesday to the main hospital in the northwestern city of Linz. Only eight of them turned out to have possible symptoms, doctors told Austrian state broadcaster ORF.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: pests
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*shudder*
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:06:03 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
To: TheBigB
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:06:53 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
(Livin' in a blue city in a red county in a blue state in a red nation.)
To: TheBigB
Has anybody sequenced the DNA of spiders? I think that they're aliens, like the extraterrestrial version of a cockroach.
Spiders are just... wrong...
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:09:19 PM PDT
by
wyattearp
(Study! Study! Study! Or BONK, BONK, on the head!)
To: TheBigB
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:09:25 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
To: TheBigB
eeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkk!!! I hate spiders.
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:09:42 PM PDT
by
American Quilter
(You can't negotiate with people who are dedicated to your destruction.)
To: TheBigB
Are these the barking spiders I've heard so much about?
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:10:23 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
("There is no substitute for victory." - Douglas MacArthur)
To: TheBigB; All
Does anybody know, can a person buy epinephrine for allergy type effects OTC?
Not sure if it would be any good against spider bites, but worth having some around nonetheless!
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:10:36 PM PDT
by
djf
(A short fence is mathematically the same as NO FENCE...)
To: xsmommy; najida; Bella_Bru; Hi Heels; Xenalyte; StarCMC; Kathy in Alaska; Titan Magroyne; ...
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:11:55 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
(Livin' in a blue city in a red county in a blue state in a red nation.)
To: TheBigB
I love spiders, I think they're fascinating. I've owned a bird eater and two pink toed tarantulas in the past 10 years.
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:13:00 PM PDT
by
Mazda3Fan
To: TheBigB
I hate spiders. While in Wisconsin, my son was bitten by an unknown variety over a year ago - he still has irritation and mild swelling in the area. Doctors are still monitoring it.
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:13:17 PM PDT
by
Lando Lincoln
(For what cause would a liberal go to war? (Revolutions don't count))
To: TheBigB
Where is William Shatner? He could fix the problem very quickly. He'd suffer several bites in the process though.
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:13:36 PM PDT
by
Shaun_MD
(In God We Trust. In Might We Remain Free)
To: TheBigB
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:15:12 PM PDT
by
badpacifist
( I drive super slow in the ultra fast lane .....................yo deo oh ...oh de oh)
To: TheBigB
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:15:13 PM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
(Tired of being called intolerant by the truly intolerant...)
To: djf
Most venom, regardless of source, is a protein. Foreign protein causes an alergic response. We apply MSG meat tenderizer to bites of all kind and it usually helps a lot because it works to denature the protein.
To: American Quilter
I have two of these:
I was at a place where they are very prevalent. A momma was sitting over her little cocoon and millions of them were pouring out. So I stuck em in a jar, had about 50 to start.
Now there's only two left. They're very shy but HIGHLY aggressive when I put bugs in. Since only two survived, I guess that in the spider world, if you're not the diner, you're the dinner!!
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:16:47 PM PDT
by
djf
(A short fence is mathematically the same as NO FENCE...)
To: wyattearp
Yes, they are
kin to scorpions.
We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.....and spiders.
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:19:17 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: TheBigB
Dooooooooooooooooooood! Happy Friday t'ye!
Well of all the things to ping me to...! *shudder*
I'd rather encounter a snake. At least you can see those without walking into a web and getting creeped out at the thought of it crawling around on your head. Gives me the friggin heebie-jeebies, poisonous or not.
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:19:19 PM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
(Suicide Bomb Instructor: "Now pay attention, I'm only gonna do this once...")
To: TheBigB
I've heard liberals called venomous yellow sacks of ....
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:19:50 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: TheBigB
Must be Muslim spiders. Imported from the Arab nations. Just like the West Nile fever.
Biological Warfare.
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:21:10 PM PDT
by
Doc91678
(Doc91678)
To: Shaun_MD
Paging Dr. "Rack" Hansen...
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posted on
08/04/2006 12:21:48 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
(Livin' in a blue city in a red county in a blue state in a red nation.)
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