An eight-year-old Spider-Man fan in Vichuloma, Bolivia reportedly encouraged a black widow spider to bite his hand in the hopes that he’d gain superpowers.
Soon after that, the child’s body began to ache, and he began experiencing severe muscle contractures. Despite this, he refused to tell his parents what had happened until his conditioned worsened further. At this point, he wasrushed to hospital.
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Thankfully, he was okay - the doctors gave him an antidote serum. “The serum is a specific antidote against the venom, which neutralises the toxicity of the poison in the person’s body so it does not have any effect,” the health department explained (via the Mirror).
After he recovered, he directly admitted that he “wanted to become Spider-Man”. His mother added that he’s a “huge fan of Spider-Man and loves to watch the movies”.
“The child, without calculating the risks, picked it up and, according to him, put it on the back of his hand where the arachnid made the respective bite,” head of the zoonotic diseases programme for the Departmental Health Service of Oruro, Ernesto Vásquez, said.
He continued: “We are extremely concerned because it came to our attention from the analysis and responses from the child after he had recovered that he used the arachnid for one simple purpose. He wanted to becomeSpider-Man."
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“These black arachnids with red backs are black widows that do not cause any effect to become Spider-Man, on the contrary, they are putting their lives at risk,” Vásquez said.
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