Spiders and Flesh Eating Diseases

Spider bites have been associated and blamed for flesh eating disease (necrotising skin infection) in many cases worldwide and now here in our back yard. The Brown recluse spiders also known as fiddleback spiders or violin spiders and the venom from a white-tailed spider are the two spiders believed to transmit the disease. As a result of flesh eating disease, many victims end up having body parts amputated. Flesh-eating disease is an infection that results in the death of the body’s soft tissue. It is a stark disease of abrupt onset that spreads quickly. Symptoms include red or purple skin in the affected area, severe pain, fever, and vomiting. Typically the infection enters the body through a break in the skin such as a cut or burn. But, the association between spiders and FED has been debunked over and over, within the last five years the popular association has never been confirmed.

gogreenpestcontrol.ca Ladner Tsawwassen Delta B.C. Randy Bilesky

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