Snakebites Injure About 50 in Chandpur in Two Weeks, One Dies
Snakebite cases are rising in Chandpur at the end of the monsoon, with about 50 patients treated in two weeks and one death.
Snakebite cases are rising in Chandpur at the end of the monsoon, with about 50 patients treated in two weeks and one death.
A venomous cobra had laid eggs inside an old house in Matlab Uttar, and household members killed the 21 hatchlings one by one after spotting them.
Eni Roy, an 18-year-old college student, has died of a snakebite in Narail after being bitten in her bed at night.
A 35-year-old man bitten while fishing in Ullapara was taken to a healer before reaching hospital in Sirajganj, where he died without receiving antivenom.
A 14-foot python found in a border bamboo grove in Tentulia was rescued by the forest department and sent to Ramsagar National Park for release.
A 65-year-old man bitten by a snake tangled in his net in Santhia was taken to healers before hospital and died on the way to Pabna General Hospital.
A 26-year-old housewife, Ayesha Akter, died of a snakebite at South Majhgram in Lalpur, Natore, on her way to hospital.
A guide to why snakes enter homes during the monsoon floods, what to do on seeing one, first aid for bites and the myths around snakes.
Snakebites have risen in Mirsarai, Chattogram, after the devastating flood, with about 400 people bitten this year and one schoolboy killed.
A 22-year-old man died after being bitten by a venomous snake in Katiadi upazila of Kishoreganj on the night of 22 September.
Forty-five kalkeute snake hatchlings were rescued from a house in Shyamnagar, Satkhira, on 22 September.
Two women died of snakebites in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail, one while pulling straw for cattle and the other on Friday evening.
A seventh-grade pupil in Mirsharai, Chattogram, died of a snakebite after his family first took him to a traditional healer.