backpacker bitten by one of the world’s most deadly spiders mistook the itchy red wound for a blister.Iona McNeil, 38, even joked that she might die after waking up in pain the day after the brown recluse spider sank its fangs into her ankle.
The critter is in the top 10 of the planet’s most lethal arachnids.Iona said: “I woke up at 6am the next day in pain. I couldn’t walk too well on it and I felt nauseous.
I joked to one friend that if I died then could he make sure that people wear bright colours to my funeral.”The dancer was bitten while climbing the 1,082ft Monkey Mountain in Mexico last December.
Iona first noticed a circular red spot on her left ankle on the way back.The next day, after waking up in pain, she saw two marks on her leg and knew it was more than a blister.Iona took herself to hospital but fainted twice on the way.
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