A poisonous snake attacked an 8-year-old boy in a small village around 215 miles northeast of Raipur, India. The boy did not die. The cobra did. After the boy bit it two times, People.com reported.
“The snake got wrapped around my hand and bit me,” the boy told local media, the New Indian Express. “I was in great pain. As the reptile didn’t budge when I tried to shake it off, I bit it hard twice. It all happened in a flash.”
According to Dr Jems Minj, a medical officer, the boy, Deepak “was quickly administered anti-snake venom and kept under observation for the entire day and discharged.”
It was later determined by local experts to be a “dry bite,” according to New York Post.
“Deepak didn’t show any symptoms and recovered fast owing to the dry bite when the poisonous snake strikes but no venom is released,” local snake expert Qaiser Hussain said, as reported by the New Indian Express.
Another cobra bitten by a human
In August of last year, a 45-year-old tribal man reportedly bit a snake to death after the reptile bit him in a remote village in Odisha’s Jajpur district, India Times reported.
“Something bit on my leg while I was returning home on foot last night. I switched on my torch and found it to be a poisonous krait snake. To take revenge, I took the snake in my hands and bit it repeatedly, killing the viper on the spot,” said the tribal man.
Man who loves snakes?
While other humans are bitten by venomous snakes, and then fight back, a man from Maryland, USA was found to keep over 100 venomous and non-venomous snakes of different varieties placed in tanks inside his home, reported People.com
Among the snakes that he has adopted was a 14-foot-long Burmese python — as well as venomous snakes that are illegal to have in Maryland.
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