A British tourist needed emergency surgery after his flesh started rotting – following a tiny spider bite.
Nigel Hunt was bitten on his stomach – doctors believe by a false widow or brown recluse spider – while lying in bed at home, just hours before flying to Egypt for a holiday.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The 59-year-old felt fine at first but became violently sick a couple of days into his trip. His wife, Sandra, 59, said he started to feel worse as the bite grew larger.
Nigel, from the Isles of Scilly, then went to the hospital where blood and ultrasound scans were taken.
What he thought would be a routine visit took a turn for the worse when doctors revealed he was suffering from necrotising fasciitis – a flesh-eating bug.
Speaking from Egypt, where he is still having treatment at hospital after contracting a flesh-eating disease, the window fitter describes the horror story.
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DESCRIBING HIS HORROR STORY
He said: ‘On arriving at the airport and travelling through check-in we made our way to departures’.
‘At this point, everything seemed to deteriorate quite quickly from being sick in the departure lounge to having my head in a sick bag for most of the journey.’
Nigel later went for his operation to have the abscesses treated where doctors discovered that he had contracted necrotising fasciitis.
