Man Walks Again After Deadly Spider Bite

by March 17, 2009 2422 Views

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David Blancarte, who was paralyzed from the waist down for almost 21 years following a motorcycle accident, was surprised to find that feeling returned to his legs following the bite of a deadly brown recluse spider.

Blancarte was in hospital following the spider bite when a nurse noticed a spasm in his leg; a test with electrical current revealed that he had feeling. Bites from the brown recluse spider can cause tissue death and long-lasting sores, or in cases of severe reaction, death.

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by C. S. Magor - Mar 17, 2009

by C. S. Magor - Mar 17, 2009

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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