A dad issued a warning over spiders in the UK - after a false widow bite left him arthritic when his limbs nearly exploded. Brian Smith had woken up in bed to a sharp pain on the top of his right hand ...

A mother of three in West Memphis, Arkansas, says a spider bite ended up costing her a leg. "I was seeing my little cousins off to prom and their dad was like, 'Why are you limping? What's going on?' ...

It may have only taken one radioactive spider bite for Peter Parker to become Spider-Man, but everyone else can rest easy: Spider bites are rare, and most of the time, they can be treated at home.