We have those brown widows, black widows and brown recluses here. They leave a nasty bite. Especially if your more effected by their poison then others. There was a case where a kid got bitten and the hospital couldn’t do much. The father heard of a experimental antivenpm that mexico had developed. The hospital said they will not administer anything not approved by the fda. The company inexicp would meet the father at the airport and the risk the smuggle it back in was on him. So he flew there picked it up and couple hours later back into the us. Passed a couple customs officers questions about why he flew there and straight back with no time of visit. Gets back on the road. Hospital still refuses to use it. The doctor said get the kid into my office. They had to remove the kid from the hospital go into a doctors office to administer the medicine and it worked. Apparently black widows aew a huge problem in mexico.
The really messed up thing about it all is the us has a law. If they don’t have the medicine or treatment here you are allowed to import it abroad. I guess being expirmental was the issue. But the kid had a deadly reaction from it. He was going to die with out it. Most bites arnt to bad. Some fester and get infected. But some people it can be a life or death thing. I have no idea if the USA ever got the antivebom in its inventory now or not. This was several years ago. There was a show/documentary on this families experience