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Originally Posted by Daradon
Well the article stated that most of the people didn't go to the hospital. They went to local witch doctors and healers, and that could have been a factor. Plus allergies to insect bites and stings can kill you pretty quickly, I know some people who have to carry around epee pens for just that reason. You've never heard of people dying from bee stings or spider bites before? It's not terribly uncommon. I'm not sure where your getting your facts from that people don't die from being allergic to insect/spider bites.
As well the article did state that yes the spider behavior in the story is very strange but not unprecedented. Spiders can swarm if environmental conditions are against them. As for the aggressiveness, that is also very weird, but I don't know. Says they are looking into the case.
As for what the spiders are doing there, they also state that it doesn't appear to be a spider that they knew was native to the area. It may have been transported there from somewhere, perhaps even already bred with a local species to create a new one. Like the Africanized honey bees in North America.
Lastly I don't know why the story isn't more widely spread, there could be lots of reasons. Maybe it will be in the weeks to come.
I'm not saying your wrong, it's just your first posts didn't really do much to challenge the article, it didn't even seem like you read it. Everything you say here was already covered in the article so it makes me wonder if you bothered to go through it or you just jumped at the headline and the post.
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He has a passion for arachnids, so he likely wasn't happy to see this story.