The Spider Bite That Eats Your Flesh
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This is what happens when a recluse spider finds you at the wrong place and the wrong time, with your fat finger somehow getting in the way. The flesh-eating effect is detailed in Wikipedia:
Loxosceles spiders, like their cousins in Sicarius, have potent tissue-destroying venoms containing the dermonecrotic agent, sphingomyelinase D, which is otherwise found only in a few pathogenic bacteria. This venom is highly necrotic in effect, capable of causing lesions (open sores) as large as a US quarter. The wounds take a long time to heal and may require skin grafts. If these open wounds get infected there can be serious consequences. Rarely, the venom is carried by the blood stream to internal organs causing systemic effects.
via BOINGBOING
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