Spider bites tourist below the belt

[mandywong]

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/05/14/spider-bite-katipo-new-zealand.html

A Canadian tourist in New Zealand suffered a swollen penis and chest pain after he went for a nude swim and nap and was apparently bitten by a katipo spider.

The 22-year-old "woke to find his penis swollen and painful with a red mark on the shaft suggestive of a bite. He rapidly developed generalized muscle pains, fever, headache, photophobia [light sensitivity] and vomiting," Dr. Nigel Harrison of Whangarei Hospital in Northland, New Zealand, and his colleagues reported in Friday's online issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal.

The man developed chest pain the next morning, the New Zealand Herald reported.

Doctors assumed he had been bitten by a katipo spider, which they said are thought to be one of the most poisonous native creatures in New Zealand.

He was treated with antivenom and rapidly improved, though heart problems persisted.

"He was discharged after a total of 16 days in hospital. On review he was generally well," the journal said.

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I love the comment left by one of the readers:
"Somewhere there's a joke in there about sucking out the poison."

[Ace001]

  terrifying.

[rc]

there are rares cases like that

[prodigal_son]

Sucks to be him!