When three Bolivian kids found themselves face to face with a black widow spider, they let their imaginations get the better of them. Instead of giving the dangerous spider plenty of space, the brothers each allowed it to bite them in hopes that they'd become superheroes, like Spider-Man. Alarmingly, their parents had to take them to the hospital for emergency treatment for the potentially deadly venom.
The three unnamed brothers, aged 12, 10, and 8, from the town of Chayant in Potosi, Bolivia, were out grazing goats, while their mom was collecting firewood, when they came across the black widow in May 2020. What happened next was relayed by the Bolivian’s Ministry of Health’s chief of epidemiology Virgilio Pietro, as reported by Telemundo.
