Snake Bite
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For some reason, I can't copy the text of the article, but I'm amazed at the damage a venomous snake bite can cause.
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Bunch of copperheads around here. Haven't heard of a fatal bite in many years, but our community usually has somebody bitten almost every year.
Didn't have as many copperheads when I was a kid, probably because we were open range. The cows kept the woods cleaner and I guess the hogs killed their fair share of snakes.
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Made me think of that video George posted about the snake in the ceiling in Australia. The snake tamer must have know what kind of snake it was before sticking her hand up the ceiling.
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I kept care of a kid with a necrotic foot in the ICU in Alabama. There were 2 patients I recall the year I was there. Both sets of parents brought the snakes in for identification (1 was shot up pretty badly; the other was hacked to death).
@Jolly Was religious snake handling ever banned down South? I kind of remember this making the news in Okpella. -
Made me think of that video George posted about the snake in the ceiling in Australia. The snake tamer must have know what kind of snake it was before sticking her hand up the ceiling.
@taiwan_girl said in Snake Bite:
Made me think of that video George posted about the snake in the ceiling in Australia.
That, I believe, was some kind of constrictor (anaconda?). Not venomous.
By the way...
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/poisonous-vs-venomous
If you bite it, and you get sick, that's poison.
If it bites you, and you get sick, that's venom.
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@taiwan_girl said in Snake Bite:
Made me think of that video George posted about the snake in the ceiling in Australia.
That, I believe, was some kind of constrictor (anaconda?). Not venomous.
By the way...
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/poisonous-vs-venomous
If you bite it, and you get sick, that's poison.
If it bites you, and you get sick, that's venom.
That, I believe, was some kind of constrictor (anaconda?).
Not at all likely an anaconda for numerous reasons.
More likely a Boa or a less aggressive species of Python. I doubt if it was native to Aus.
There was fellow who worked for a multinational environmental consulting firm Calgary. He was a Tatar from Kazan who had a PhD in Zoology - Herpetology. Before immigrating to Canada he had worked all over the Central Asian republics of the USSR. A place similar to Australia in terms of venomous reptiles and insects. He had intimate personal knowledge and experience of the severity of their bites and stings and had the body scars to prove it. I remember him saying that the viper bites were the most severe in terms of rapid necrotising flesh and secondary bacterial infection. His worst experience however and scarring was from some insect or arachnid that left behind not only necrotizing venom but a tenacious parasite that affected the nervous system. He said the wound and surrounding tissue would not heal for months and he was sick (malaria like sick) off and on for a year after the bite. I can’t remember the bug or parasite - I’ll ask my wife later as iirc, she knew exactly what he was talking about when he told us. It was something not uncommon to that part of the world.
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I kept care of a kid with a necrotic foot in the ICU in Alabama. There were 2 patients I recall the year I was there. Both sets of parents brought the snakes in for identification (1 was shot up pretty badly; the other was hacked to death).
@Jolly Was religious snake handling ever banned down South? I kind of remember this making the news in Okpella.@blondie said in Snake Bite:
I kept care of a kid with a necrotic foot in the ICU in Alabama. There were 2 patients I recall the year I was there. Both sets of parents brought the snakes in for identification (1 was shot up pretty badly; the other was hacked to death).
@Jolly Was religious snake handling ever banned down South? I kind of remember this making the news in Okpella.Pretty much, I think. Doesn't mean some folks don't still do it.
