2 people dead, many hospitalised after swarms of venomous spiders invade Indian town

[AlpineX]

SADIYA, India � A town in India has suddenly been overrun by swarms of venomous spiders, leaving two people dead after being bitten.

It may sound like a B-grade horror movie, but residents of the town of Sadiya, in Assam state, say that on the evening of May 8 as they were celebrating a Hindu festival swarms of spiders suddenly appeared and attacked them, The Times of India reported.

Over the next few days two people -- a man, Purnakanta Buragohain, and an unnamed school boy -- died after being bitten by the spiders. Scores more turned up at the town's hospital with spider bites.

Local resident Jintu Gogoi spent a day in the hospital complaining of excruciating pain and nausea after being bitten. He said weeks later his finger was still blackened and swollen.

District authorities are also panicking -- and they are considering spraying the town with the insecticide DDT.

Locals say the most terrifying aspect is that spiders appear in swarms and their behavior is highly aggressive.

"It leaps at anything that comes close. Some of the victims claimed the spider latched on to them after biting. If that is so, it needs to be dealt with carefully. The chelicerae and fangs of this critter are quite powerful," head of the department of life sciences at Dibrugarh University Dr. L.R. Saikia said.

Teams of Indian arachnid experts have flocked to the town, hoping to identify the species, but so far they have drawn a blank.

They say it could be a tarantula, a black wishbone or even a funnel-web spider -- or it could be a whole new species.

One thing they agree on is that it is not native to the area as there is no record of venomous spiders in Assam. The black wishbone and funnel-web are native to Australia.

Researchers are also still running tests to find out the toxicity of the spiders' venom.

Dr. Anil Phatowali, superintendent of the town's hospital, said they had not administered antivenin as they could not be certain the spider was venomous at all.

He also pointed out other factors may have contributed to the two reported fatalities.

"All the bite patients first went to witch doctors, who cut open their wounds with razors, drained out blood and burnt it. That could have also made them sick," Phatowali said.
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[Lowlander]

Inb4 the government did it to kill off the peasants and undesireables.

[Nic70707]

disregard firearms....acquire flame throwers

[Quasimobro]

[DerekJeter]

Yup time to die.

[Overclass]

Such is life in mother Jgamibi land

[DocHol1day]

kill it with fire

[EssexBrah]

i would shoot myself before the spiders could get me

[chaser6259]

"It leaps at anything that comes close. Some of the victims claimed the spider latched on to them after biting. If that is so, it needs to be dealt with carefully. The chelicerae and fangs of this critter are quite powerful," head of the department of life sciences at Dibrugarh University Dr. L.R. Saikia said.

Locals say the most terrifying aspect is that spiders appear in swarms and their behavior is highly aggressive.

Well I guess that's that.

[sbsponger]

[maxey127]

Well I guess thats that.

[EN0]

Here's my conspiracy theory. Mad scientist created an army of spideys and is testing them out.

[Klc123]

"All the bite patients first went to witch doctors, who cut open their wounds with razors, drained out blood and burnt it. That could have also made them sick,"

I'm glad the witch-doctors were on the ball, God knows how bad it would have been if people didn't receive treatment.

[heykiddo]

Welcome to bug aids.

[proudmanlet]

Zombie spiders or spiders that make you a zombie when they bite you? That is the real question

And thank you op for adding awareness of this, I tried to alert the misc last night

[chaser6259]

Welcome to bug aids.

oh my lawdy. Dat everything....

[RavenStorm]

haha exactly what I thought of

[midniteOG]

edit: cot damn above posts





replace scorpiaons with spider....

[Dan217217]

il straight up kill myself if i ever spot a swarm of spiders charging at people through a telescope from a helicopter 10km's in the sky

[codebrah]

Here's my conspiracy theory. Mad scientist created an army of spideys and is testing them out.

Fuuuuuuu!

What was that crappy movie on Scifi (I think) like 10 years back where some government program or some sh*t goes wrong and spiders start popping out of peoples' chests Aliens style? Anyone know WTF I'm talking about?

This is going to drive me insane now trying to figure out what it was.

Edit: Found it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203940/

[MumbaiMonitor]

Kali gonna Kali...

[srirachasauce1]

[Mephisto91]

Even nature itself has had enough of Indians.

[MumbaiMonitor]

Even nature itself has had enough of Indians.

This is right in line with Hindu theology:

http://spiderwisdom.com/?tag=cult-of-kali

And on a Hindu festival day too.

[lucasmaes11]

Wasn't likely to go to India anytime soon.......never going now

[miscidiots]

what if aliens dispensed them there to take care of the population?

like they've done before with plagues

[tehzeus]

The Conspiracy theorist in me says that powerful people are making all the theological events happen. INB4 "aliens" attack at the Olympics and NWO is established officially.

[heykiddo]

what if aliens dispensed them there to take care of the population?

like they've done before with plagues

Bug aids.

[Lowlander]

Bug aids.

You going to f*cking tell us what bug aids is or what?

[CodeMajic]

Clicked on thread to see spider attacks left to fap.