I work with a guy whos wife is a surgical nurse and she says that they see a lot of spider bites and they are horriable and happen a LOT! I was never afraid of spiders until he relayed some of her stories to me about some of the spider bites they have treated at her office. Just get the hint....she is a SURGICAL NURSE and they treat spider bites a LOT!... To bad for a GP to treat so they have to be bad!!! One engineer we had at work, walked around with a can of bug spray all day, looking for spiders, he was scared to death of them... He was almost 7 ft. tall and weighed a good 300 pounds and he would run from them!