Spider leaves man with flesh-eating wound that won’t heal

It bites.

A British man has experienced any arachnophobe’s worst nightmare after an alleged spider bite left him with a horrific flesh-eating wound that would not heal.

“I can’t stand spiders,” Carl Jones told SWNS of the horrific saga, which began in January after the Bucks native noticed a mysterious blister on his bicep, reported the Daily Star.

Unsure of the cause of the mark, the 26-year-old lab technician went to emergency care. Unfortunately, the doctors were equally upset by the imperfection and simply healed the wound.

Soon after, Jones’ condition began to deteriorate.

“I was at work and someone said I didn’t look very well,” said the puzzled patient. “I experienced a lot of sweating and fever.”

Eventually, the blister swelled into a revolting coin-sized crater filled with pus.

Jones was then rushed to hospital, where “he underwent investigations for Borrelia, tuberculosis and possibly skin cancer because the wound was not healing,” the terrified soul recalls.

Doctors tried to cure Carl’s carnivorous pustule by prescribing three different antibiotics, but to no avail.

Salvation finally came in June, five months after the bite’s initial onset, when Jones underwent a biopsy, during which doctors excised the infected part of the wound, the Sun reported.

A few weeks later, the poor man finally discovered what he believed to be the culprit – a noble fake widowed spider in his bathroom.

“I got home from work the other night and have never seen anything like it before,” said the recovering patient of the spider, a moderately poisonous species of non-native British arachnid that is often mistaken for the Highly poisonous black widow in the US.

“I looked at cases around Milton Keynes and saw a news story about an increase in the number of bogus widows in the area,” Jones said, adding: “I really just put two and two together. “

And while the gentle soul normally takes the spiders outside, Jones decided to kill this specimen to prevent him from putting it in the hospital again.

This is not the first time that a seemingly harmless sore has metastasized into a serious skin disease. Last month, a California man redefined “razor rash” after a mixture of razors left his face ravaged by flesh-eating bacteria.