Spider bite turns into deadly disease (Image: Unsplash)
A 59-year-old British man narrowly escaped death after a spider bit him right before he was set to travel to Egypt. Nigel Hunt, from the Isles of Scilly, was bitten by a spider on his stomach, but said that he initially felt no pain. The incident happened on August 30. However, by the time he was travelling to Sharm El-Sheikh, Hunt became seriously ill and had to be taken to a hospital.
While initially the doctors said the wound was an abscess, they later conducted tests which revealed Hunt had developed necrotising fasciitis, a rare and dangerous “flesh-eating” infection, a BBC report said. Hunt was taken in for an emergency surgery, which proved to be crucial in saving his life.
Hunt described his ordeal, saying, “On arriving at the airport, I started feeling ill, and things quickly deteriorated from there. At Sharm El Sheikh, we sought help at a pharmacy, but my condition worsened, leading us to a different hospital in Hadaba.” There, tests revealed the bite to be from a false widow or brown recluse spider.
Hunt said that he survived the infection only because of his timely second hospital visit. “If I hadn’t gone back within that critical window, I wouldn’t be alive today.”
Though recovering, Hunt still requires frequent wound care and has warned his fellow residents on the Isles of Scilly to be cautious about spider bites.
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