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News Clippings
(12th March 1998 Daily Telegraph)
Miller's tale of creepy crawlies
ARACHNOPHOBES at Cazenove should stay
well clear of Christopher Miller, a 30-year-old Indian
equities salesman who returned on Monday from a week's
holiday in the southern Mexican resort of Oaxaca.
Waking up on his first morning, he noticed a bloody
eruption on his right thigh and rushed to the doctor.
"It is common to be bitten by spiders around
here," said the doc, proudly showing off his spider
scars. "It has probably laid eggs, so do not
scratch."
Miller's suspicions were raised when, on the following
night, he spotted a tarantula scampering across the patio
floor. The tropical disease specialists in London will
have a good poke tomorrow. Spiders lay up to 1,000 eggs
and Miller has been advised to let them hatch or risk
complications.
His Caz training has enabled him to take it in his
stride: "At the end of the day, spiders have to lay
eggs somewhere," he says stoically. "I don't
know whether I am a father or a mother," he tells
me, adding generously: "Do you fancy being one of
the godfathers?"
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