unknown spider/insect bit

[Semjase]

This really does sound like a bacterial infection and possible necrosis caused
by a venom.  Why wait for an ID it would be better to start treatment as it
could turn sour later.

Best
 S.>From: "Hiram" <hiram at qcislands.net.nospam>
>Date: Mon, Jul 20, 1998 11:49 EDT
>Message-id: <DGJs1.959$to.2667520 at newsread.com>
>
>I work at a small community hospital in NW Canada, on the Queen Charlotte
>Islands.  About ten days ago one of our nurses who lives on an island about
>ten minutes from town got (assumtion) bitten by an unknown insect/spider.
>The symptoms and effect of that bite are, from our limited knowledge,
>classic of a "brown recluse" spider, but this spider is not known here and
>all the info I've seen indicates that it is only found in the southern
>mid-west of USA.  I know of no other insect/spider here which results in
>that kind of a bite, though I an unfamiliar with centipede or millipede
>bites.
>My quiery is this;  does anyone out there know of a place I can find a list
>of the commonly found poisonous insects/spiders and etc found in the NW
>coastal areas of Canada?  And, does anyone know if a brown recluse could
>have hitch-hiked in and lived long enough to multiply here?  Anyone know of
>any here that could cause the same kind of reaction?
>Here, if you are interested, is a description of the wound;
>Unknown, unseen agent of the bite
>12 to 24 hours later, started as a mild irritation, progressed to a blister
>surrounded by a "bruise", progressed to a debillitating large lesion on her
>leg, now ten days later she is still on crutches but beginning to feel
>better.  As an aside, this nurse has not been seen by us, only the wound
>reported.  She refuses to "bother" her peers with her little problem.
>Damn, women are tough.  No man would have put up with that.
>
>Baxter "Festus" RN
>
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