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Your Creepy Crawly Story Of The Day
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This woman lost part of her ear and almost lost her eye sight to... okay, start cringing... a brown recluse spider bite. She was at the airport in Amarillo when she got stung by the bug, and she ended up with her head swelling to twice the normal size and her ear rotting (EWWWW) from necrosis. PANIC!!! Well, it's rare, actually, that the brown recluse bite causes that much damage. Normally, you get a lesion, some muscle and joint pain, vomiting and fever, and that's nasty, but not fatal. And there's one expert who says that stories like this one cause doctors to overlook more serious problems, like diabetes or even lymphoma, that cause similar symptoms, because they just assign the symptoms to a spider bite. So... Don't panic. Yet. (Good Morning America/ABC News vis Yahoo! News)
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