According to the band, doctors say that it likely originated from a spider bite.

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

He was served in his ultimate retirement in the desert by a man whom he had cured from the bite of a snake.

Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.

Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

A scoring system can be used to try to determine the biting snake based on clinical features, but these scoring systems are extremely specific to particular geographical areas.

Ideally the dead snake would be brought in with the person, but in areas where snake bite is more common, local knowledge may be sufficient to recognize the snake.

Bullet ants ( Paraponera ), located in Central and South America, are considered to have the most painful sting of any insect, although it is usually not fatal to humans.

The amount of venom produced also differs among species, with the Gaboon viper able to potentially deliver from 450 600 milligrams of venom in a single bite, the most of any snake.