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Old 20-08-2003, 05:22 AM
donald j haarmann
 
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Default Spider cleared of causing flesh-eating ulcer?

"lumberjack"

Thought the following news item might be of interest ...


Spider cleared of causing flesh-eating ulcer

The white-tail spider, whose bite has been blamed for cases of
flesh-eating ulcers for decades, has been declared innocent following
methodical Australian research.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s926733.htm



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I took the liberty of forwarding the above to the "Venom Mailing List".
This reply includes the URL for the original publication and an editorial. /djh/

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Spider cleared of causing flesh-eating ulcer


Not completely, according the original article:
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/...b10785_fm.html
"These data suggest that spiders are an extremely uncommon cause of necrotic
or cytotoxic lesions, and should be considered only at the end of a long
list of other differential diagnoses."

Posters name deleted. /djh/ Who suspects that the spiders mothers knew all along
- their prodigy were innocent!


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donald j haarmann
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"In nature there are neither rewards nor
punishments - there are consequences! "