A hospital in Queensland Australia had to be shut down temporarily as an infestation of poisonous redback spiders broke out. The worry was that they could fall from the ceiling and land on patients beds.
Pest controller had to be called in to eradicate the problem, fumigator Bruce Dekker had this to say “What we’re concerned about is that we may get redbacks dropping through some of the air-conditioning ducting or through . . . exhaust fans,” he said. “We’re concerned that some of these openings are above the patients’ beds.”
