Tue 22 Jun 2010
SoCal teen dies week after spider bite
Posted by admin under Los Angeles , Nature , Passings 1 Comment(From the AP) Authorities are awaiting an autopsy report to determine if a spider bite contributed to the death of a 13-year-old Pomona boy. Pomona police say paramedics were called to the boy’s home Sunday afternoon for a possible knee injury.
The boy was found in cardiac arrest when emergency personnel arrived. He was pronounced dead hours later at a hospital after efforts to revive him failed.
Police say an initial investigation found that the teen may have been bitten by a spider a week or more before his death and had complained of knee pain. They say there was no evidence of traumatic injury to the boy’s body.






June 22nd, 2010 at 1:31 pm
The news is now reporting that it was not a spider bite, but that the boy died from a staph infection.