5-Year-Old Boy’s Death Blamed on Spider Bite
From Times Wire Reports
A 5-year-old boy’s death was the result of a bite by a poisonous brown recluse spider, the state medical examiner ruled.
Nicholas Robinson was bitten while playing outside his home about 70 miles south of Nashville.
“In about the last 30 or 40 years, I was only able to find about six deaths related to bites proving to be from a brown recluse spider,” said Dr. Bruce Levy, the medical examiner.
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