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Yes -- you almost always will survive a black widow bite. While Black Widows deal out a complex and nasty neurotoxin, they don't inject every time they bite (so many get off unscathed this way). Even if you are envenomated, most of the time it's an unpleasant but non-lethal experience. Those at greatest risk are infants (mostly due to low body mass), the elderly, and anyone who has a violent anaphylactic reaction to the venom. For instance, only Sixty-three deaths were reported in the United States between 1950 and 1990 -- Wikipedia -- Black Widow Spiders.

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