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  • Death adder: five bites and pulling through

    10/12/2006 11:41:37 PM PDT · by kingattax · 3 replies · 241+ views
    The Sydney Morning Herald. ^ | October 13, 2006
    A Sydney holidaymaker has received two doses of antivenom following five bites from the world's second-most deadly snake, an NRMA CareFlight spokesman says. The 50-year-old man was attacked by a death adder snake at the Del Rio water ski resort at Wisemans Ferry last night in Sydney's outer north-west. He was bitten when he picked up the snake in the dark thinking it was a lizard. Other holidaymakers killed the snake and put it in a plastic bag so it could be positively identified by hospital staff. The man, from Schofields in Sydney's north-west, suffered a heart attack and paralysis...