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Wife has 6 bug bites on arm, two days later, red marks, bites swollen, has pain from shoulder to fingertips, center of bites are blistering?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
Needs to see doctor: It sounds like she may have been bit by a brown recluse spider and needs to be seen asap.
Answered 8/21/2020
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