People who get the shivers over tarantulas likely imagine a gigantic bite from a fanged mouth. But as one man recently found out in England, tarantulas are more likely to defend themselves by shooting a mist of microscopic barbed hairs straight into your eye.
Man walks for the first time in 20 years after being treated for spider bite.At first, doctors were perplexed when the 29-year-old man came into their ophthalmologist’s office at the St. James University Hospital in Leeds. The man didn’t mention a run in with his pet tarantula.
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