By LAUREN COX
ABC News Medical Unit
Jan. 1, 2010
People who get the shivers over tarantulas likely imagine a gigantic bite from a fanged mouth. But as one man recently found out in England, tarantulas are more likely to defend themselves by shooting a mist of microscopic barbed hairs straight into your eye.
At first, doctors were perplexed when the 29-year-old man came into their ophthalmologist’s office at the St. James University Hospital in Leeds. The man didn’t mention a run in with his pet tarantula.
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