# How Common Are Fatal Wild Animal-On-Human Attacks In (Western) Europe? Japan? Australia/NZ?

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This might be of interest - or the stuff of your nightmares - but the stat that there have been no deaths by funnel-web since the introduction of the antivenom in 1981 despite quite a few bites every year is encouraging.

Funnel-webs are very deadly, can be moderately aggressive and co-occur with humans around greater Sydney and beyond, and very adept at climbing into shoes, inside houses, playing dead in swimming pools and living in your garden.

> **[Record-breaking Sydney funnel-web spider dubbed ‘Hemsworth’ to be milked for...](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/07/record-breaking-sydney-funnel-web-spider-dubbed-hemsworth-to-be-milked-for-venom)**
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> Step aside, Colossus. Be gone, Hercules. The Australian Reptile Park has recorded its largest male specimen so far

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