Venomous spiders prompt temporary Michigan library shutdown
Staff at a University of Michigan library temporarily closed the building after three venomous spiders turned up in a basement storage area
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It's the spider's library now
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Three Spiders shut down University of Michigan's library for 2 days
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Everyone I know that's been bitten required hospitalization and surgery.
That's a troll? That's a legitimate question. According to the Wikipedia page the Brown Recluse is pretty shy and most bites are relatively harmless.
Teaching my kids to not fear insects, but to also avoid and not bother them has been great. If we see a spider in the house, you either leave it be or take it outside. My mom used to panic and it was annoying.
Recluse bites are known to cause tissue necrosis, while very rarely fatal they will leave permanent damage where bitten if not treated quickly. They are far from harmless.
If they have spiders in the modern undergrad building, then who knows what's lurking in the old graduate library.
I get that, but it says the majority of the bites don't cause any symptoms at all.
If not treated immediately their bite will literally rot a hole in your body. They're extremely dangerous spiders.
The problem with recluse bites is that, when they do cause damage, the damage can be severe. Unlike most spiders where the bite causes some mild irritation at worst, recluse wounds can be both painful and longlasting.
EDIT: A family friend lost most of his hand to a particularly bad recluse bite.
This isn't a statistic worth contemplating, its like saying "Only 3% of those bitten get killed" from another venomous animal. Recluse bites have roughly 10% chance of severe symptomatic reaction, unless we are talking allergy level where its so extremely rare to get any reaction from it anything over 1% is too big a chance inside a space where people constantly congregate, and 10% is way, way too high that people would have to be sent to the hospital just to get checked because there is so little time to treat a bite if they end up getting said reaction.
Thanks for clearing that up.
I live in the NE so I never experienced them. There aren't a lot of venomous spiders here other than the occasional Black Widow.
