A tourist’s legs have been amputated and he’s lost the use of an arm after his family claims he may have been bitten by a white-tailed spider in regional Victoria. Filipino tourist Terry Pareja’s family say they were told by doctors a bite from a white-tailed spider might have caused flesh to die which led to the amputations. Speculation about whether white-tailed spider bites could cause necrotising arachnidism was investigated in a study published in 2003 in the Medical Journal of Australia. It found no evidence of necrotising arachnidism in 130 confirmed cases of white-tailed spider bites.
Tourist loses legs after spider bite in Australia
