Three Die of Snakebite in Faridpur, No Antivenom at Any Hospital
Three people have died of snakebites in Faridpur in two days, with no antivenom available at any hospital or health centre in the district since June.
Three people have died of snakebites in Faridpur in two days, with no antivenom available at any hospital or health centre in the district since June.
Chuadanga Sadar Hospital alone treated 48 snakebite patients in July, four of whom died, as snakes become more common in the district.
Maleka Begum, 50, died of a venomous snakebite while grazing cattle on a remote char in Raipur, Lakshmipur.
A trader bitten by a snake while fishing on the Gorai river in Kushtia killed it, put it in a bag and brought it to hospital, where doctors identified it as a Russell's viper.
A snake charmer in Faridpur was bitten after catching a Russell's viper he mistook for a python, and turned up at hospital with the snake.
An 18-month-old girl named Lamia was injured when a jackal bit her on the head and face in the yard of her home in Nabinagar, Brahmanbaria.
A man bitten by a snake in Chuadanga's Jibannagar upazila was taken to hospital with the dead snake, which proved to be non-venomous.
A 13-year-old boy died after falling from a tree he had climbed to pick mangoes in Companiganj, Noakhali.
A teacher at a government primary school in Netrokona's Kalmakanda upazila was badly beaten after he stopped local men from picking the school's mangoes.
Three people were injured when a wild boar bit them in the Chailyatali area of Longadu upazila in Rangamati.
Two young cousins died when a tree branch fell on them as they collected mangoes during a storm in Muktagachha, Mymensingh.
A woman bitten by a snake hidden in firewood came to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital with the dead snake, and doctors say she is out of danger for now.
At least 15 people, including a child, were injured by jackal bites in three areas of Mirzapur municipality in Tangail on one day.