articleA woman is fighting for her life after family members said she was bitten several times by a spider and later contracted a flesh-eating bacteria. "When she woke up Sunday morning she had a headache, a fever and was in some pain," her son, Adrian Swensen, told FOX Television Stations. Swensen said doctors examined her and determined she had 15 spider bites and seven of them became extremely infected. Swensen said doctors told him his mother had contracted a flesh-eating bacteria that was wreaking havoc on her body. According to the National Institutes of Health, necrotizing fasciitis— a disease from flesh-eating bacteria— can develop after an infected spider bite, particularly from a brown recluse.

Source: Forbes July 25, 2022 18:46 UTC