A 37-year-old woman from California became ill after grinding up a black widow spider and then intentionally injecting ...

Most exposures to black widow spider venom are accidental, but in a rare medical case, the exposure was intentional.

Whatever the assailant, though, snake-bite treatment has been the same for a century: inject an antivenin containing ...

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