In Argentina in the mid-1940s, a rural school teacher named Jorge Washington Ábalos and a brave group of women collected black widow spiders to help develop a new antivenom formulation. They were ...
Quick Take Achieving survival after a Redback bite once required 1 specific intervention to prevent a fatal outcome. The ...
The bite of a black widow spider can initially feel like a sharp stabbing pain, or it can be deceptively subtle, barely registering notice. But as the spider’s potent neurotoxin courses through the ...