Flesh-Eating Spider Bite On A Plane Nearly Costs The Passenger His Leg
The idea of anything – whether it be a bacteria, virus, or some type of a critter – causing your flesh to rot away is absolutely terrifying. One man recently lived through that exact situation while on an airplane.
While on holiday, Jonathon Hogg, of London, was told by the doctors who saw him after his Qatar Airways flight landed that he had nearly lost his life during this attack. While aboard the plane, a venomous brown recluse spider managed to bite him, causing his leg to ‘burst and melt’.
After feeling a sharp pain on his leg, Hogg witnessed a tiny spider racing across the floor of the plane. He thought nothing of it at the time, but the bruise from the bite grew larger and larger until a few days later his leg burst open. Hogg said: “They said had I been bitten on a vein I would be dead. It’s necrotic venom which eats the flesh. The pain was like nothing I’ve been through in my life. By the time I got to hospital my leg was bursting open, there was pus, it was black.”
The man, after recovering slightly, sent a letter to Qatar Airways explaining the entire situation. The airline did not take the ordeal seriously, however. The airline is required to properly fumigate their airplanes so things like this don’t happen, but it appears they have failed to do so.
Hogg, who is now suing the airline, has a new-found phobia for flying. He claims: “I’m not sure I’ll ever get on a plane again. I have a plane phobia now. I work for a big New York telecoms company negotiating contracts. I need to be able to fly to New York to get ahead. I’m going to my doctors with nightmares about flying and losing my leg.”
