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Speaker 1: Killer do for ce Allen hither. You can still buy

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Speaker 1: the jaffers through House of Fine Foods, but they are

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Speaker 1: a bulk one kg bag and they're called orange chocolate

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Speaker 1: balls and you will absolutely need your shot of Wigov

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Speaker 1: after that. Nineteen past five. Listen, don't panic, but there

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Speaker 1: are some dangerous spiders that have invaded New Zealand. Noble

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Speaker 1: false widow spiders spotted and put it to her last year.

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Speaker 1: Now they're in christ Church, Nelson, Northland and White Cuttle.

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Speaker 1: Professor Stephen Truick is an evolutionary ecologist at Massi University High.

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Speaker 2: Stephen, Hello, Hello.

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Speaker 1: If they bite you, do you die?

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Speaker 2: Possibly? Very unlikely? A worst can I his scenario. I'll

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Speaker 2: give you the worst case scenario. You're liking around in

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Speaker 2: your backyard. You nick yourself, or you think you've nicked

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Speaker 2: yourself on something. You're reaching for that cricket ball behind

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Speaker 2: the fence, you know, the usual thing. You're paying you

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Speaker 2: no attention of it. You don't know you've been bidden

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Speaker 2: by a spider, but you get an action where the

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Speaker 2: bite was, but you still don't know it was a spider.

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Speaker 2: You eventually decide I've got to go to the doctors.

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Speaker 2: Even though I have to wait and pay and all

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Speaker 2: the rest of it, and they say, well, dear, you

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Speaker 2: know you've got an infectual and give you some antibiotics.

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Speaker 2: The antibiotics don't work. You get an open ulcer, you

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Speaker 2: get awa ane and said around for six hours whatever

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Speaker 2: it is, and get looked at. And then they starting

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Speaker 2: to find other solutions because well, alternative antibiotics. So the

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Speaker 2: thing is that like most spiders, they're not going to

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Speaker 2: bite you because they're not interested in you. But this

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Speaker 2: one they do have some toxins that are similar to

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Speaker 2: the toxins that black widows and red backs have their predators.

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Speaker 2: After all, that's what they use their toxins for. They

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Speaker 2: bite little little things. I don't know whether it you know,

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Speaker 2: you can feel anything when one of these spider biders

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Speaker 2: bites you. There's not been reports of excruciating pain. You

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Speaker 2: probably have a bit of a niggle, but much more

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Speaker 2: likely you don't recognize it at the time. And that's

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Speaker 2: in a way the problem, because if you do get

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Speaker 2: an infection from the bacteria associated with this spider, then

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Speaker 2: it's difficult for people to track or how did you

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Speaker 2: get this, where's it come from? What's going on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, but we're not sort of like, you've got

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Speaker 1: five minutes you need to smoke your last cigarette and

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Speaker 1: you're going to fall over.

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Speaker 2: And well you shouldn't be smoking a cigarette anyway.

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Speaker 1: But well you've got five minutes. I don't know about you, Stephen,

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Speaker 1: but I'm probably going to smoke a cigarette. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to find you.

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Speaker 2: What have you got time for abriate? That's right. No,

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Speaker 2: it's certainly not wherever you can manage you fabriit. No,

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Speaker 2: it's certainly not like that. The venom of these things

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Speaker 2: similar even black widows in Australia. It might be painful,

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Speaker 2: it might give you a bit of discomfort, but it's

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Speaker 2: not going to kill you. Okay. The interesting thing is

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Speaker 2: to follow on stuff if that happens. The infection of

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Speaker 2: my thought.

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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you really appreciated that made me feel a

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Speaker 1: bit better. Steven appreciate it. Stephen Truick, who's an expert.

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