31-year old Orlando Jimenez Jimenez, is currently battling for life in the intensive care unit of Honorio Delgado Espinoza hospital in Arequipa, southern Peru.
He was reportedly bitten by the world’s most poisonous spider – a Chilean Recluse spider.
The Chilean variety is considered to be the most dangerous of the recluse spiders and its venom can cause severe allergic reactions and even death.
Doctors say he is suffering from kidney and liver failure while the toxins have caused the rotting of his ears and eyes as a result of the bite.
"The spider fell on him and bit his left ear. Within minutes, his health deteriorated and they took him to a local health centre where he was given an antidote."
A video of him semi-conscious and breathing through a tube on his hospital bed with clear signs of his ear rotting and his eyelid turning black was released recently.
Likewise, a British barrister who narrated his encounter with a brown recluse spider during a flight to South Africa and how doctors had to cut a chunk of his leg where the venom had eaten deep into his flesh.
He was left with a gaping hole on the front of his shin afterwards.
Mr Hogg, 40, said last month:
"The pain was like nothing I’ve been through in my life. By the time I got to hospital my leg was bursting open, there was pus, it was black. It was a right mess. They told me if I had been any later I would have lost my leg or even died. It was terrifying."
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