<P> Bites by the redbacks (Latrodectus hasselti) number a few thousand yearly throughout the country . Antivenom use is frequent but declining . Children may have less complications of bite . Funnel web spider bites are few 30--40 per year and 10% requiring intervention . The Sydney funnel web and related species are only on the east coast of Australia . </P> <P> In Switzerland about ten to one hundred spider bites occur per one million people per year . During epidemics of latrodectism from the European black widow upwards of 150 bites a year were documented . </P> <P> The American Association of Poison Control Centers reported that they received calls regarding nearly 10,000 spider bites in 1994 . The spiders of most concern in North America are brown recluse spiders, with nearly 1,500 bites in 2013 and black widow spiders with 1,800 bites . The native habitat of brown recluse spiders is in the southern and central United States, as far north as Iowa . Encounters with brown recluse outside this native region is very rare and bites are thought to be suspect . A dozen major complications were reported in 2013 . </P> <P> Numerous spider bites are recorded in Brazil with 5000 / annually . Loxosceles species are responsible for the majority of reports . Accidents are concentrated in the southern state of Parana with rates as high as 1 per 1,000 people . Bite from Phoneutria (Brazilian wandering spider) number in the thousands with most being mild . Severe effects are noted in 0.5% of cases, mostly in children . </P>

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