23-year-old bitten by violin spider dies

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 17 - A 23-year-old, Giuseppe Russo, died in the intensive care unit of the Policlinico hospital in Bari, Puglia, due to complications after he was bitten by a violin spider on July 13, medical sources said on Saturday.
    The youth was bitten on his right leg in Collepasso, in the province of Lecce, while he was working in the countryside.
    The young man initially thought he had been bitten by a mosquito but when the welt on his leg became increasingly large, he started feeling intense pain due to an abscess that eventually necrotized his leg.
    He died of septic shock and multiple organ failure, the sources said. (ANSA).