A woman loses 10 lbs of skin to a spider bite

As an ER doc who sees “Spider Bites” (caused by phantom spiders) all the time, I can say that I have a healthy dose of suspicion that this case was actually caused by a spider bite. MRSA abscess/cellulitis is way more likely. And I’m not the only one who whinks so. Here’s what some arachnidologists had to say in the Seattle P-I.