Almost 100 people went to hospital last year with spider bites, according to a report, with the number four times higher than ...

Most exposures to black widow spider venom are accidental, but in a rare medical case, the exposure was intentional.

It took doctors a long time, however, to figure out the unlikely cause: alpha-gal syndrome, also known as red meat allergy, which Wallace probably got from lone star tick bites in her backyard in ...

Spiders are some of the most diverse creatures on Earth. While they can be frightening, most of them are harmless and ...

A 37-year-old woman from California became ill after grinding up a black widow spider and then intentionally injecting ...

Two venomous spiders, black widows and brown recluse spiders, can cause severe symptoms, experts say. Here are spider bite pictures and tips to identify them.

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

For people with a mosquito bite allergy, also known as "skeeter syndrome," symptoms are more severe than the itchy red bump of a mosquito bite. They can include a rash, large areas of excessive ...