PG> with you, except that if I remember right, the brown recluse is really
  PG> a lot more dangerous than the black widow.  Fewer than 50 people have
  PG> died in the US total (not per year) from black widow bites.  The brown
  PG> recluse won't kill you, but the venom sort of makes your flesh rot off
  PG> near the bite.  Yuck.
  PG> 
  KD> My mother is a nurse, she has been for about 20 years.  And in that 20
  KD> years she has seen 2 people die from brown recluse bites.
  
I take it back.  They DO kill you.  Yuck!  
However, to keep things in perspective, she's probably also seen people die 
from bee stings.
OTOH, I've never heard of anyone dying from a parrot bite.
Obviously, we've chosen the right pets.
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