also known as the "flesh-eating disease". However, he never saw his attacker so can’t be sure if it was a spider - or indeed what type. The UK has 650 different species of spiders, and the ...

After posting his discovery online, Jenkins was told that the creatures were infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – an ...

A 59-year-old British man narrowly escaped death after a spider bit him right before ... a rare and dangerous "flesh-eating" infection, a BBC report said. Hunt was taken in for an emergency ...

When he looked down he saw a brown spider scuttering away and his initial ... Doctors cut out swathes of flesh and muscle to stem the infection and potentially save his leg. His wound is now ...