An army of dangerous poisonous spiders invaded an Indian city during a Hindu festival, killing two people. Nobody knows exactly what species it is or where it came from. It is not the scene of an "Arachnophobia" style film, but what actually happened in Sadiya, about 600 kilometers from the capital of the eastern state of Assam, Guwahati.
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An army of very dangerous poisonous spiders has invaded during a Hindu festival an Indian city, killing two people. Nobody knows exactly what species it is nor where it came from. It is not the scene of a "Arachnophobia“, But what really happened to Sadiya, about 600 kilometers from the capital of the eastern state of Assam, Guwahati, where the inhabitants are now fighting for save your life from this horde of lethal arthropods they already have point more than ten people, suffering from nausea and pains throughout the body, e killed two men.
According to the newspaper The Times of India, we would be faced with one still unknown species of spiders, which appeared for the first time on May 8th. Within a short time the local hospitals were filled by people with bite problems of this new animal which reportedly attacks anyone who passes by e remains stuck to the skin for quite a while after biting.
"We can't say for sure that the deaths are due to poison, but they could have been caused by one allergic reaction poison, which resulted in cardiac arrest in both victims. In addition, all patients, at the first bite, went to sorcerers, which have caused some wounds with razors. This may also have contributed. We also did not administer no dose of antivenin, as we weren't sure if the spider was poisonous, ”he explains Anil Phatała, director of Sadiya Hospital.
"At the beginning we thought of a joke, at a staging - said an old man - but then many inhabitants were stung by this strange species ". Now in the area they have been sent some scientists, who will have the task of understanding what is happening: "we inspected the area and found some spiders - said LR Saikia, from the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Dibrugarh, also in Assam - sthey look like a crumb but we're not sure if this is the species. In any case it is a aggressive spider with much stronger jaws than known species ". Numerous specimens have been sent from Assam to other centers specialized in the study of arachnids, where the poison toxicity.
Pending answers from the scientific world, Sadiya's authorities consider the hypothesis of spray the city with DDT, despite the health risks of the insecticide, while the local population is said to be certain about the iIt is possible that these spiders were native to the area.
What is certain is that swarms of spiders are rare but not unknown, as they often appear especially when short. floods bring them to the surface of the earth. And that DDT cannot be the solution.
Roberta Ragni
