
 Ambulance Director Gary Carmack |
Paramedic’s Corner: Spider sightings and bites seem to be increasingPULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (June 30, 2010) — Spiders, Yuk! Most of us think about those horror movies with awful tarantulas crawling all over our bodies. A lot of people have been telling me they are seeing numerous brown recluse spiders this year. I don’t know if all the spiders they are seeing are brown recluse or not, but almost all of the 30,000 species of spiders are venomous. However, the fangs of most species are too short or too fragile to penetrate the humans’ skin. Only a few spider venoms have been studied in detail.
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