{"id":1884,"date":"2010-05-14T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2010-05-14T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T06:19:00","slug":"spider-bites-tourist-on-the-penis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/05\/spider-bites-tourist-on-the-penis\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider Bites Tourist on the Penis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eturbonews.com\/files\/imagecache\/fullpage\/0a11_53.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eturbonews.com\/files\/imagecache\/fullpage\/0a11_53.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A Canadian tourist in New Zealand has suffered heart inflammation after apparently being bitten on the penis by a spider.<\/p>\n<p>The tourist fell asleep naked on a beach in Northland, on the far tip of the north island, after going skinny dipping, the NZ Herald reported.<\/p>\n<p>After the bite from the highly poisonous katipo spider, the 22-year-old began to suffer high blood pressure, rapid heartbeat and a severely swollen penis.<\/p>\n<p>Whangarei Hospital&#8217;s Dr Nigel Harrison wrote in the NZ Medical Journal that the tourist realised he had been bitten as soon as he woke up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He rapidly developed generalised muscle pains, fever, headache, photophobia [light sensitivity] and vomiting,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a rather nasty, ill-placed bite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After being treated at Whangarei and Auckland Hospitals over 16 days, the tourist was discharged and returned to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The venom of the katipo spider (pictured), which is related to the Australian redback, was previously not known to cause heart problems in humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian tourist in New Zealand has suffered heart inflammation after apparently being bitten on the penis by a spider. The tourist fell asleep naked on a beach in Northland, on the far tip of the north island, after going skinny dipping, the NZ Herald reported. After the bite from the highly poisonous katipo spider, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}