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Excuse me?come on! those are based on presumption of "recluse" bites.
Dont believe in what Venom tells ya ...hes just chucked full of scary info!
Link one was from the U. S. National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health.
Links two and four were written by nationally-recognized physicians.
Link three was from the American Journal of Arachnology
Link four was from the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Your stunning idea that Loxosceles do not/ can not cause human fatality is completely contrary to these reputable sources! You are basing this on your IMPRESSION that recluse spiders "aren't that bad," based on their normally inoffensive behaviour. I'm sorry, but that is an entirely subjective, baseless, and ignorant presumption. The three major South American Loxoscelids, L. laeta, intermedia, and gaucho, have a 13% incidence of systemic effects, and a 1.5% incidence of FATALITY. Documented by science! In the medical literature! Are you honestly going to say "pff, they all just guessed it was Loxos...cuz I don't think..blah blah" ???
Loxosceles is a highly toxic genus, which, on rare occasion, HAS killed. To deny this...you'll have to contradict CEVAP, the National Institutes of Health, and many other reputable sources that all say Loxo spp. can be life-threatening on occasion.
And please, don't post another pic of you handling a Loxosceles, and cite that as proof that they aren't dangerous. That only proves how dumb you are and how docile the genus usually is--nothing to do with toxicology or medicine. Your subjective, uniformed opinion is contra-factual, and quite frankly, a dangerous encouragement to others to be less careful than they ought.
Once again, I link you to an abstract to an article, provided by the NIH:
"Report of fatality: spider bite (Loxosceles)" IMJ Ill Med J. 1970 Apr;137(4):339.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4393470