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A man dies after being bitten by a snake in a daycare center.
After the incident, he initially felt no symptoms.
Nevertheless, any help comes too late for him.
Deeragun – Tragic incident at a daycare center in Deeragun, Townsville, Australia.
While trying to remove an eastern brown snake from the building, a family man was bitten multiple times on his left arm, the local
Courier-Mail
reports.
A little later he succumbed to the snake's poison.
A French backpacker also recently died in Australia after being bitten by an Eastern brown snake.
The man was reportedly called to the daycare by a relative to remove the unwanted guest.
However, the father of the family was not a trained snake handler or snake remover.
The incident is reminiscent of the fatal rescue operation of an Australian who wanted to save his friend from a snake.
Man dies after snake bite in daycare - but initially feels no symptoms
However, after the bites, the man initially hardly felt any symptoms, as
dailymail.co.uk
also reported.
After the incident, he even drove home himself.
There he told his wife about the bites, who said she immediately applied a compression bandage.
A man has died after being bitten by an eastern brown snake in northern Queensland, Australia.
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During this time, the poison symptoms appeared in the man's body and became stronger, so that he fainted seconds later.
His wife contacted emergency services immediately after the collapse and initiated resuscitation measures for her husband, who, according to emergency services, had suffered a cardiac arrest before paramedics arrived.
The man was then taken to hospital in critical condition, where he died a short time later.
Eastern brown snake responsible for most snakebite deaths in Australia
Paula Marten, Queensland Ambulance Service deputy director for the Townsville district, said in a statement: "If you are unfamiliar with snakes, treat them all as if they were venomous and use basic first aid."
Bites from an eastern brown snake are usually painless at first.
A University of Melbourne study found that 23 of the 35 snakebite deaths in Australia between 2000 and 2016 were caused by brown snakes.
The Eastern brown snake is a medium-sized snake with a slender to medium-sized body and a small head.
They are known to prefer forests, bushland and savanna grasslands and are distributed throughout eastern and south-eastern Australia.
They are most active especially in spring and autumn.
Only recently did researchers even discover a new species of giant snake.
(bk)