I was real lucky. At the time we lived in a very old, creaky leaky house that had lots of creepy-crawlies. Guess one crawled into my shoe. The venom destroys tissue and you're right -- that causes sepsis and gangrene sometimes. Do you have scorpions there? I am really freaked out by those things.
I think we have four in Calif, but were I go only two & they are not bad.. You might get a lil sick is about it.. I rarely ever see them..