Editing Redback spider (section)

===Prognosis===
According to [[Ministry of Health (New South Wales)|NSW Health]], redback spider bites were considered not life-threatening but capable of causing severe pain and systemic symptoms that could continue for hours to days.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=http://www1.health.nsw.gov.au/pds/ActivePDSDocuments/GL2014_005.pdf|title=Snakebite and Spiderbite Clinical Management Guidelines 2013, Third Edition|date=16 March 2014|publisher=Ministry of Health, NSW|access-date=23 October 2017|archive-date=15 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215111714/http://www1.health.nsw.gov.au/pds/ActivePDSDocuments/GL2014_005.pdf|url-status=live}} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50x50px]] Material was copied from this source, which is available under a [[creativecommons:by/4.0/|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]].</ref> In almost all cases, symptoms resolve within a week.<ref name=isbister2006/> Fatalities are extremely unlikely.{{sfn|White|2013|p=181}} In 2016, the death of a [[hiking|bushwalker]] from a redback spider bite was widely reported. In this case, the death occurred from secondary infection; and the man in question had just recovered from a serious car accident.<ref name="Jayden">{{cite news |url=https://www.northernstar.com.au/news/mullum-man-jayden-burleigh-dies-days-after-redback/2994925/ |title=More than $12k donated to family of man killed by spider |newspaper=[[The Northern Star]] |date=3 April 2016 |access-date=13 August 2018 |archive-date=13 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813143325/https://www.northernstar.com.au/news/mullum-man-jayden-burleigh-dies-days-after-redback/2994925/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Apart from that, there have been no deaths due to redback bite since the introduction of [[antivenom]].{{efn|No deaths since 1956 have been formally reported,<ref name="Wiener"/> but a spider expert at the [[CSIRO]] Division of Entomology told a news reporter that he had heard of one other death.<ref name=Warden1989/>}}<ref name="Wiener">{{cite journal |last=Wiener |first=Saul |title=Latrodectism: a Prospective Cohort Study of Bites by Formally Identified Redback Spiders |journal=Medical Journal of Australia |volume=179 |issue=8 |pages=455–56 |year=2003 |pmid=14558881 |url=http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/179_08_201003/letters201003_fm-8.html |type=Comment, letter |doi=10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05640.x |s2cid=40170866 |access-date=13 February 2012 |archive-date=1 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901081929/http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/179_08_201003/letters201003_fm-8.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Before this, redback spider bites had been implicated in at least 14 deaths in Australia, however these cases cannot be definitively linked to the redback bite as the sole cause.<ref name=Booth2008>{{cite journal |author=Booth, Carol |title=Along Came A Spider |journal=Australian Geographic |date=July–September 2008 |url=http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/along-came-a-spider.htm |access-date=25 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006070407/http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/along-came-a-spider.htm |archive-date=6 October 2009 |url-status=dead  }}</ref><ref name=avru>{{cite web|url=http://www.avru.org/compendium/biogs/A000006b.htm |work=The Australian Venom Compendium |author=Alafaci, Annette |title=Redback Spiders |publisher=Australian Venom Research Unit |date= 25 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115112010/http://www.avru.org/compendium/biogs/A000006b.htm|archive-date=15 January 2015 |access-date=2 September 2013}}</ref>