Cutaneous anthrax in 2001 was misdiagnosed as a brown recluse bite

Host Erin Allmann Updyke recounts published examples of suspected brown recluse bites later found to be other conditions, including a case during the 2001 US anthrax bioterrorism episode that was initially misdiagnosed as a recluse bite. She argues that clinicians can over-attribute necrotic skin lesions to brown recluse spiders, including in regions where the spiders are not established.