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Story summary
- A 73-year-old man was hospitalized four days after a spider bite caused a leg infection.
- He was renovating his mother’s house in Blackpool’s Marton area when he felt the bite on his left leg.
- Priestley suspected the bite came from a noble false widow spider, Britain’s most venomous spider.
- Doctors performed blood tests and admitted him to Blackpool Victoria’s medical assessment unit after he reported swelling and heat.