Parents have been advised to caution their children and be aware of spiders which are likely to be venomous.
This was coming after three Bolivian brothers were hospitalised having provoked widow-spider to bite them with the hope of becoming Superman, a movie they had watch.
Following the discharge of the children, Mr Pietro warned parents to 'be careful', since 'for children everything is real, movies are real, dreams can be real, and they are the illusion of our lifetime'.
The venom which is 15 times stronger than rattlesnake's, had the victims taken to the Children’s Hospital in La Paz, by which point they were suffering muscular pain, sweating, fever and general tremors.
Black widow bites are rare as the spider is non-aggressive and only tends to bite if threatened.
Its venom can be paralysing as it is 15 times stronger than a rattle-snake’s according to National Geographic, with bites resulting in muscle aches, nausea, and paralysis of the diaphragm, which can make breathing difficult.
However, most of those bitten suffer no serious long-term injuries, and deaths are very rare, with small children, the elderly, and those with underlying health conditions most at risk.
Its name is derived as a result of the larger female black widow which often kills and eats the smaller males after mating with them.
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