The painful abscess swelled to the "size of a bar of ... There are around 650 species of spiders in the UK Public health experts say spider bites in the UK are rare and false widow bites, at ...

The abscess, a collection of pus ... I went to the chemist and they said it looks like a spider bite. They gave me antihistamine cream and tablets and said if it’s no different in three days ...

He said his stomach was operated on after doctors feared an abscess had formed but it ... who believes the culprit may have been a spider, said the bite to his stomach felt like a "nip".

Spider bite causes minor swelling and redness at ... secondary bacterial infections or minor surgery to drain pus filled abscesses.