Some more plausible explanations of the so-called spider bite

Seems like a valid one this time. www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Cape-Tow...spider-bite-20120815

A pity they have a random spider marked as a sac spider on the picture on the article.

:igiveup:

I googled "sac spider" and I haven't found the image they used yet ...... really pathetic journalism.

Sad thing is it was not really the spiders bite as such that killed her it was her Diabetes that made healing near impossible But yeah from what I gather it's a nasty piece of work either way.

@Spunky

Follow this link and you will see where they got the pic from...
www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?searchter...h_source=search_form

I know they made a mistake but like this thread is about something just pissing people off the same goes when people so easily call others/what they do pathetic. I studied journalism, have worked for newspapers and mistakes will be made. The pic they got was from shutterstock listed as a SAC SPIDER, journalists are not arachnologists so probably working on a deadline and just taking what they thought (from the given description) is a sac spider they just went with that pic.

I mean they're not just lying about it being a spiderbite as the origional topic of this thread was they simply used a wrong pic which they got from false info.

Spunky wrote: :igiveup:

I googled "sac spider" and I haven't found the image they used yet ...... really pathetic journalism.

There you go
www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-6093377-...ider-on-primrose.php

For image search, I always use Tineye. There is a chrome plugin that you just right-click on a picture and you can search Tineye for it. Always interesting finding the source.

Reply from Norman Larsen regarding the spider bite.
Norman is one of the top arachnologists in the country and the go to guy for the Western Cape:


Hi Folk,

Gerbus agrees with us that this is total bull SH one T. He has spoken to them I have tried to contact them via a friend at the Burger. Strangely Philip de Bruin works from Gauteng for the Beeld so you should get a copy.
Read the translation.


This story below is totally a case of misdiagnosis. There is no proof of a spider bite, It was recorded as a Sac Spider. The signs and symptoms are totally incorrect and one cannot pathologically confirm spider bites. Spider venom contains an antibiotic so no infections are present. Violin spiders do not occur within 200km of Cape Town and the result of their bite has been exaggerated and they are in fact not aggressive. The cytotoxic spiders bite effect the skin and does not cause holes in ones flesh. It is a fact that doctors incorrectly blame spiders for necrotic wounds and are wrong in 70-80% of their diagnosis in SA, USA, Europe and Australia. There has been no death recorded as a result of a spider bite in south Africa in the last 70 years. One must also ignore hoax emails sent and to Google it on Mythslayer.
One often wonders why Chinese and Japanese camera manuals etc are so difficult to read. Below is the article as it appears in Die Burger on News24. When you click on the translate button the English text below the Afrikaans appears. Please read and have a hearty laugh.

Best,
Norman.

Norman Larsen
(Associate Arachnologist
Iziko, South African Natural History Museum.)
16 Plantation Rd
Devil's Peak
Cape Town
8001
Cell: 0836981943
Home: 0214614460
Email: avellopsis@telkomsa.net
Web: www.biodiversityexplorer.org.za


Sakevrou sterf ná giftige sakspinnekop haar byt


KAAPSTAD. – ’n Sakevrou van die Strand is gisteroggend dood, twee weke nadat ’n hoogs giftige sakspinnekop haar in die lies gebyt het. Sandra Carpenter (53) was alleeneienaar van die rekenmeestersfirma Sandra Carpenter en Kie. Volgens Nila Nel het die spinnekop haar suster twee weke gelede gebyt. Nel is ook ’n sakevrou van die Strand wat onder meer Strand Mini Taxi’s besit. “Sy het nie eens van die byt geweet nie. Omdat sy ’n diabeet was, het haar suikervlakke weens die infeksies ná die byt die hoogte ingeskiet. Ons het begin soek vir die oorsaak van die infeksies en het die bytplek in haar lies eers voorverlede Vrydag gesien. “Dokters het haar behandel, maar die bytplek was kort voor lank ’n gat so groot soos ’n 50c-stuk. “Van die gif wat uit die gat gedrup het, is ontleed en só is vasgestel dit is ’n sakspinnekop wat haar gebyt het. “Die sakspinnekop is maar klein, maar so giftig soos min ander spinnekoppe ter wêreld. Sy het toe ook blase op haar maag begin kry. “Ons het haar Saterdag hospitaal toe gebring, waar sy in die waakeenheid opgeneem is en vanoggend (gisteroggend) kort voor 10:00 gesterf het.” Nel het gesê die gifstof het al Carpenter se organe aangeval en haar longe het ingegee. “Vanoggend (gisteroggend) het haar dokter haar verdoof omdat sy geweldige pyn verduur het.“Sy was egter nooit in ’n koma nie en het onder verdowing gesterf.” Carpenter was geskei en het geen kinders nie. Volgens Nel is die begrafnis Vrydag om 14:00 uit die NG kerk Lourensrivier in Broad¬way in die Strand.
- Die Burger. Philip de Bruin. 2012-08-15 06:00
CAPE.TOWN - A Business Woman of the beach yesterday morning killed two weeks after a highly toxic sakspinnekop her in the groin bite.
Sandra Carpenter (53) was sole owner of the accounting firm Sandra Carpenter and Company.
According to Nila Nel, the spider her sister two weeks ago bitten.
Nel is also a business woman of the beach that includes Beach Mini Taxis possession.
"She did not even know that the bite. Because she is a diabetic, her sugar levels due to infection after the bite skyrocketed. We started looking for the cause of the infections and the bite in her groin first seen on last Friday.
"Doctors have treated her, but the bite was soon a hole the size of a 50c piece.
"From the venom dripping from the hole has been analyzed and thus set is a sakspinnekop her bite.
"The sakspinnekop is small, but as poisonous as few other spiders in the world. She then also blisters on her stomach getting started. "We took her to hospital Saturday, where she in the ICU and recorded this morning (yesterday morning) shortly before 10 o'clock died." Nel said the toxin has been Carpenter's organs are attacked, and her lungs collapsed. "This morning (yesterday morning) her doctor sedated her because she had severe pain. "She was never in a coma and died under anesthesia."
Carpenter was divorced and had no children.
According to Nel, the funeral Friday at 14:00 from the DR Lourens River Church in Broadway in the Strand.