While Woodkid was traveling in the United States, he was bitten by a violin spider, similar to those that have already caused the death of two people. Hospitalized in Seattle, the musician was treated in the hospital of a legendary show.
Woodkid is one of the most listened to French artists of the moment. His real name is Yoann Lemoine, the artist has hundreds of thousands of listens. While he was taking advantage of the summer holidays to visit the United States in a road trip style, the musician was bitten by a type of very venomous spider.
The fiddler spider, called the brown recluse in the United States, measures only 6 to 9 centimeters but can be fatal in some cases. Since July, it has caused the death of two men. It was not the bite itself that killed them, but the infections caused by it, according to Christine Rollard, a spider specialist at the National Museum of Natural History, interviewed by Le Parisien. Its venom can cause necrosis of the affected tissues and infections. Its bite can cause high fevers, convulsions, swelling, joint pain, nausea and dizziness.
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