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'I'm lucky to still have my leg': Decorator suffers horrific wound inflicted by poisonous spider that is plaguing Britain

Ricki Whitmore, 39, (pictured with his family, top left) was bitten when he disturbed a nest of false widow spiders while working at a school. Surgeons had to flush the spider's venom from his leg after his thigh (main picture) swelled to twice its normal size. Mr Whitmore, from Romford in Essex, will now have to undergo six months of specialist physiotherapy to walk again. He is one of a number of people across the UK to suffer nasty bites from the spider, (bottom left) which is related to the lethal black widow, amid fears that numbers of the arachnid are soaring in Britain.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2453833/Decorator-nearly-loses-leg-bite-UKs-poisonous-spider.html

 

 

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