one of the world's most poisonous spiders in a
toilet.
Orlando Jimenez Jimenez, 31, is suffering from
kidney and liver failure while the toxins have also
caused his eye and ear to rot.
He is currently being treated by doctors at
Honorio Delgado Espinoza hospital in Arequipa, in
southern Peru.
They have released a video of him semi-conscious
while breathing through a tube in his hospital
bed to highlight his plight.
The footage shows his ear rotting and his eyelid
turning black.
His mother Felicitas Maria Jimenez said the spider
fell on him and bit his left ear.
Within minutes, his health deteriorated and they
took him to a local health centre where he was
given an antidote.
But his condition worsened and he is now in an
intensive care unit.
Doctors believe he was bitten by a Chilean
Recluse spider, one of the deadliest in the world.
The Chilean variety is considered to be the most
dangerous of the recluse spiders and its venom
can cause severe allergic reactions and even
death.
In November, five-year-old Branson Riley Carlisle,
from Albertsville in Alabama, U.S., died after he
was bitten by a brown recluse spider.
A month earlier, a 10-year-old Montana boy also
died after being bitten on the leg by the same
species.
Last month, a British barrister told how he nearly
lost his leg after being bitten by a brown recluse
spider during a flight.
Jonathon Hogg's leg ballooned minutes after he
felt a sharp pain on the plane to South Africa.
By the time he reached hospital it had turned
black and to save the limb surgeons had to cut
away a large part of his leg where the venom had
eaten the flesh.
He was left with a gaping hole on the front of his
shin.
Mr Hogg, 40, said: 'The pain was like nothing I've
been through in my life. By the time I got to
hospital my leg was bursting open, there was
pus, it was black.
'It was a right mess. They told me if I had been
any later I would have lost my leg or even died. It
was terrifying.'
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