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Brown Recluse Bites Overdiagnosed

According to a study done by staff at UC Riverside, doctors routinely misdiagnose lethal conditions like Lyme disease, anthrax, and necrotizing bacteria as brown recluse spider bites. This leads, among other things, to outbreaks of arachnophobic “spider-stompings.”

well, I just thought you’d like to KNOW, is all.

4 Comments

  1. ric yankee wrote:

    dear sirs: i saw a picture of a brown recluse bite on a guys thumb it was terrible! are those things in oregon???

    Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 12:49 pm | Permalink
  2. ric yankee wrote:

    dear sirs: i saw a picture of a brown recluse bite on a guys thumb it was terrible! are those things in oregon???

    Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 12:49 pm | Permalink
  3. steven edwards wrote:

    How would i be able to obtain one of these as a live in great britain ??

    Thursday, June 26, 2003 at 11:08 am | Permalink
  4. Nina wrote:

    My mom got an e-mail from one of her friends and she showed me the e-mail! it had a picture of the spider and of the victomes thumb! it was the nastest thing i seen in a long time! his whole hand was 2 times the size of his other and it was black and green! nasty!

    Thursday, June 26, 2003 at 12:16 pm | Permalink

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