Weather Brings Out Snakes
Weather Brings Out Snakes – Experts are warning that warm weather combined with the recent rain across large parts of Australia has increased the prevalence of snake sightings and attacks.
Two people have sustained dangerous snake bites in New South Wales in the past 24 hours, while six people in Queensland were taken to hospital today after being bitten.
A woman in her 40s is in a serious condition in hospital after being bitten on the foot by a snake in the Blue Mountains, making her the eighth victim in six days in NSW.
She was taken by ambulance from her house in Winmalee to Nepean Hospital.
Among those treated in Queensland was a 15-month-old boy who was taken to Bundaberg Hospital with puncture wounds to his stomach.
Meanwhile a 26-year-old man was taken to Ipswich Hospital with a suspected brown snake bite.
Last night a snake handler was bitten twice on the face by a deadly eastern brown snake at his home at Aberdeen in the Upper Hunter Valley.
The 38-year-old snake handler was given antivenom and is recovering in hospital in a stable condition.
Weather Brings Out Snakes
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