Dad hospitalized after bite by common pest caused flesh-eating disease

When Zachary Harakas felt a nip on his right leg while gardening in his backyard, he thought nothing of it.

When he looked down he saw a brown spider scuttering away and his initial thought was 'could this be a... bite?' but the pain wasn't sore enough to dwell on it.

Within days, however, the father-of-three's leg began to swell, turn green and rot.

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