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Author Topic: Canadian backpacker bit on wee whillie by poisonous new zealand spider survives  (Read 343 times)
devotedknuckles
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« on: May 16, 2010, 07:17:PM »

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A tourist is lucky to be alive after a deadly spider bit him on the penis.

The Canadian backpacker was attacked after skinny-dipping in New Zealand.

While he was swimming, a rare katipo spider crawled into the shorts he had left on the beach. When the man returned, he put them back on and fell asleep — but the trapped spider then nipped him on his manhood.

Within minutes, the spider's venom was causing him to have agonizing chest pains, a racing heart, high blood pressure and severe swelling to his penis.

Dr. Nigel Harrison, who treated the 22-year-old at Dargaville Hospital, revealed the case in a report for the New Zealand Medical Journal.

"It was a rather nasty, ill-placed bite,” Harrison said. “The man woke to find his penis swollen and painful with a red mark on the shaft suggestive of a bite. He rapidly developed generalized muscle pains, fever, headache, photophobia (light sensitivity) and vomiting."

The unidentified man's condition "improved rapidly" after treatment with an anti-venom, but he was kept in the hospital for 16 days before being allowed to return to Canada.

The katipo, a Maori word meaning "night-stinger,” is an endangered species in New Zealand.

The pea-sized spiders are related to the American Black Widow. Bites to humans are rare, but two fatalities were recorded in the 1800s.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,592893,00.html

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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2010, 08:07:PM »

I got bit by a brown recluse that got into my coveralls.   Bit me on the chest.  Luckily I felt it and killed it before it got a serious bite in.  I didn't even know it was bad until I got home after work and looked.  I was lucky, the rot was only the size of a pencil eraser.  I got the "target" too.  I put a tobacco leaf on it.  Don't know if it did any good, but I recovered well.
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« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2010, 08:11:PM »

If he had been bitten anywhere else, it wouldn't have made the news. Besides, it was only a Canadian, what is the big deal?
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« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2010, 05:12:AM »

Wondrer weho sucked the poison out for him
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« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2010, 10:09:AM »

Wondrer weho sucked the poison out for him
Cough


You're killing me!  LOL.



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« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2010, 11:38:AM »

Wondrer weho sucked the poison out for him
Cough


It is a spider, not a rattle snake.

And that is a bad idea for snakes.
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« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2010, 11:40:AM »



It is a spider, not a rattle snake.

And that is a bad idea for snakes.

Yeah, you should never try to suck the venom out of a snake.
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« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2010, 11:45:AM »



It is a spider, not a rattle snake.

And that is a bad idea for snakes.

Yeah, you should never try to suck the venom out of a snake.

Snake bite.

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« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2010, 10:26:PM »



It is a spider, not a rattle snake.

And that is a bad idea for snakes.

Yeah, you should never try to suck the venom out of a snake.

Snake bite.



Since this guy got bit on the wee willy does this classify as a snake bite?

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