FEATURE: WATCH: Why I'm Scared of Spiders

Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 18:00 in Earth & Climate

Arachnophobia affects around 6 percent of the global population. That's 420 million people. And yet, even in Australia - the land of deadly spiders - there hasn't been a recorded death from a spider bite since 1979. What's going on here? The latest episode of It's Okay To Be Smart investigates.

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