Are Tarantulas poisonous to humans?
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Well, here is what you can get from the various species of them. You can be the judge I guess. Symptoms resulting from bites of certain species of tarantulas: Grammostola rosea: No visible symptoms Pterinochilus murinus: Swelling and pain in several days Poecilotheria fasciata: Severe pain, numbness, respitory difficulties and sometimes cardiac failure. Local or total paralysys of the bitten limb. The venom attacks neuromusculare and causes tetanus. These symptoms last for 1-2 days but can return after 2-4 weeks. Poecilotheria ornata Similar to P. fasciata-bite but even more serious. Coma has occurred after a bite with a paralysis during 2 weeks. After a bite in the southern part of Sweden the bitten arm was so severely swollen that the doctors considered amputation. Theraphosa blondi: Intensive pain, miscoloraion of the hand at the place of the bite. The pain lasted 1-2 days. The mechanical damage wasn’t too bad.
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If you cook them long enough, probably not. As for their bites, yes they are poisonous. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula#Bites_and_treatment However: "There are no substantiated reports of tarantula bites proving fatal to a human"
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No they are not poisonous to humans, it is like a mosquito bite. It can not kill you.
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