Swarms of venomous spiders invade Indian town- two dead more wounded

[Ichingcarpenter]

SADIYA, India – A town in India has suddenly been overrun by swarms of venomous spiders, leaving two people dead after being bitten.

It may sound like a B-grade horror movie, but residents of the town of Sadiya, in Assam state, say that on the evening of May 8 as they were celebrating a Hindu festival swarms of spiders suddenly appeared and attacked them, The Times of India reported.
Over the next few days two people -- a man, Purnakanta Buragohain, and an unnamed school boy -- died after being bitten by the spiders. Scores more turned up at the town's hospital with spider bites.

Local resident Jintu Gogoi spent a day in the hospital complaining of excruciating pain and nausea after being bitten. He said weeks later his finger was still blackened and swollen.
District authorities are also panicking -- and they are considering spraying the town with the insecticide DDT.

Locals say the most terrifying aspect is that spiders appear in swarms and their behavior is highly aggressive.

"It leaps at anything that comes close. Some of the victims claimed the spider latched on to them after biting. If that is so, it needs to be dealt with carefully. The chelicerae and fangs of this critter are quite powerful," head of the department of life sciences at Dibrugarh University Dr. L.R. Saikia said.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/03/2-people-dead-after-swarms-venomous-spiders-invade-indian-town/#ixzz1wklGnr1T

Zombies, spiders and the Andromeda galaxy ...oh my!!!

[deaniac21]

1. Sounds like so over active imaginations

have broken loose!

[Dragonbreathp9d]

2. Forget DDT- I know a guy...

[Zalatix]

3. Anyone recall "Kingdom of Spiders" with William Shatner?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076271/

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. I'm still trying to recover from "Night of the Lepus" with its killer bunnyrabbits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Lepus

Here comes Peter Cottontail...

[Skip Intro]

6. Yes! And "Lepus" mentioned below. And ants. And a giant lizard. BUT -

when do we get a movie about giant cats terrorizing the world???

[Zalatix]

8. They're usually saving the world

at least according to one story by Stephen King. And cats coulda solved the whole Mummy thing if Brendan Frasier's character had been smart!

[MNBrewer]

5. Web of doubt surrounds India spider attack

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/04/world/asia/india-spiders-swarm/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

However, the attack has puzzled spider experts.

Last month, LR Saikia and a team of researchers from Dibrugarh University visited the town to investigate what had happened.

Saikia told CNN that he believed the man may have died from a snake bite, while the boy may not have suffered any bite at all.

"The evidence that we gathered does not support the claim that they died after being bitten by spiders," Saikia said.

[lonestarnot]

7. WTF. What kind of spiders and no I'm not going to a faux snooze link.