| TOWN AND COUNTRY, Mo., April 5 (UPI) -- The recent death of a Missouri woman from a spider bite does not signal a growing public danger, doctors and biologists say. SAVE MONEY ON TRAVEL DEALS Real estate agent Rita Boles Brumm, 63, died Monday after being bitten by a brown recluse spider, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Saturday. It was estimated she had been bitten nearly a month ago. "You can find them active all year", Maryville University biology professor Thomas Bratkowski said of the spider species. "As the name implies, they're reclusive and so typically they don't come out and attack people." Brumm had been on kidney dialysis and had medical treatment for a skin lesion since being bitten, friends told the Post-Dispatch. Dr. Dennis Keithly of St. John's Mercy Medical Center said there is no way to confirm a diagnosis of a recluse spider bite and doctors treat symptoms rather than the bites themselves. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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