When a spider bites, it typically leaves two puncture marks on the skin, a hallmark of arachnid encounters. In the United States, there are over 3,500 species of spiders, but only a handful are known ...

Did you just see a common house spider in your kitchen cabinet or one of South Carolina’s more dangerous arachnids? The Palmetto State has four different types of spiders with venomous bites. But how ...

A bite from a black widow can be serious, but here's when to get treatment, and when to know if symptoms will resolve on ...

During South Carolina summers, there seems to be no end to the number of creepy critters that can potentially bite or sting you. The bites and stings from some pests like mosquitoes, ants and bees are ...

As a new app is launched to provide first-aid advice for venomous bites and stings, a reptile expert urges people to learn ...

Skeptical toxologists say MRSA bacteria more likely caused infection. May 24, 2010— -- By the time Victoria Franklin called her twin sister to take her to the hospital in Atlanta on April 9, her ...

Although most spider bites are not substantially venomous to humans, the brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa, can cause significant cutaneous injury. These spiders are common inhabitants of homes ...

Is that red bump a spider bite or could it be a staph infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcal aureus (MRSA)? MRSA, a newer type of staph infection, has been present in Iowa since at ...

We are less than six months away from Halloween but we're already hearing eerie tales of large, yellow spiders "coming for us." But is that true? Joro spiders have been dominating headlines as the ...