Thought to be an unknown type of tarantula, the spiders are about as big as a thumb.
By Associated Press | June 06, 2012
GAUHATI, India - Large biting spiders have sparked panic in remote northeast India, but health authorities fear that primitive treatment of the bites’ painful swelling may be more dangerous than the spiders themselves.
Two people died in Tinsukia district after witch doctors used razor blades to drain the wounds. It is not known if the victims died from spider poison or from the treatment. Local magistrate Kishore Thakuria said the victims were cremated before autopsies could be done.
Seven other bite victims have been treated with antibiotics against infection after they tried to drain their own wounds, said Dr. Anil Phapowali at the local Sadiya town hospital.
The hairy spiders were noticed about a month ago across Tinsukia district’s grassy plains and dense jungle forests north of the Brahmaputra River.
Ecologist L.R. Saikia at Assam’s Dibrugarh University said it may be a previously unknown species of tarantula. The spiders are roughly the size of a person’s thumb.
“It looks like a new species. We haven’t been able to identify it,’’ he said Tuesday. Officials cannot use anti-venom in treating bite victims until the species is identified.
Meanwhile, villagers are keeping lamps on at night and standing guard against spiders entering their mud-and-thatch huts.
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