Colin Blake’s wife didn’t worry too much when she saw her husband’s red and swollen big toe on their 35th wedding anniversary.
Most vacationers get blisters from the friction of new sandals after a day of walking around.
The couple were surprised when their doctor on board told them that Peru’s The wolf spider has bitten Blake and laid eggs in his toe.
Then the spider bit off Mr Black’s toe when the doctor cut it off Eggs came out
Black, who lives in Cramlington, Northumberland, believes that (the spider) hit him while he was having dinner in Marseilles.
He told BBC Radio Scotland: ‘My wife thought maybe it was my new sandals and they were rubbing against my big toe, causing it to be red. ‘
Tragically, Mr Black’s condition worsened when he returned to the UK.
Four weeks after going to the hospital and being prescribed antibiotics, he noticed another change on his big toe.
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A more horrifying revelation came when he went to the doctors: Mr. Black was told that one of his eggs had hatched in a spider and got stuck under his skin.
He said, ‘They must think that the spider is making its way out by eating my big toe.’
But a biologist said that wolf spiders cannot lay their eggs in human bodies.
Dr Sarah Godacre of the University of Nottingham told the BBC: ‘I don’t understand how that could be true because I know about their biology.
‘(Egg sacs) take a long time to spin. Spider venom is not necrotizing, it is designed to paralyze the fruit fly.’
He added that there are no reports suggesting that eggs can remain in a ‘pus-infected wound’.
The spiders are often non-venomous and are usually found in the south of France after arriving on cargo ships.
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2024-09-25 11:24:10