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Survey of ‘spider bites’ found 80% were caused by other arthropods

This Podcast Will Kill You · The Truth About the Brown Recluse | This Podcast Will Kill You 219 · August 18, 2026
Survey of ‘spider bites’ found 80% were caused by other arthropods
This Podcast Will Kill You
This Podcast Will Kill You
The Truth About the Brown Recluse | This Podcast Will Kill You 219
"there's uh one report that I thought was really interesting showed that of the 600 people they did like a survey who sought help for a spider bite at hospitals in LA and Arizona, 80% of those bites were caused by other arthropods entirely. So like not spiders, not spiders."
Erin Allmann Updyke cites a report of 600 patients presenting to hospitals in Los Angeles and Arizona for suspected spider bites, saying 80% were attributed to non-spider arthropods. The hosts frame it as evidence that spider bites—brown recluse bites in particular—are commonly over-suspected compared with other more likely causes.
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