Citizens in Rajbari formed a human chain demanding the resignation of the civil surgeon and the Sadar Hospital superintendent after a young snakebite victim died, allegedly for lack of antivenom.
Ducks kept vanishing from a farm in Zhangzhou, China, until the culprit turned out to be a python several metres long, which was later released in remote hills.
In Dinajpur's Bochaganj, the upazila health complex has become the first port of call for snakebite victims, curing every patient in recent weeks with timely antivenom.
The Bangladesh Animal Welfare Association and the Forest Department's wildlife crime unit rescued six venomous cobras from Gulistan in Dhaka and detained one man.
Python hunter Tom Rahill caught 96 Burmese pythons in 10 days to win this year's Florida Python Challenge and a $10,000 prize.
A python trapped in an abandoned fishing net in Hail Haor, Sreemangal, died despite being rescued and taken to a veterinary hospital.
A grocer bitten by a venomous cobra in Boalmari, Faridpur, died on the way to hospital after hours of treatment by a snake charmer.
A king cobra and a python fighting in a family's courtyard in Gonauli, in the Bagaha area of India's Bihar state, were rescued alive and released into nearby forest, and a video of the scene has gone viral.
A 30-year-old snake charmer in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha, died after a venomous snake he had just caught bit him as he trained it for a show, and he was taken to a faith healer before reaching hospital.
A woman in India's Madhya Pradesh survived after a snake bit her five times in two minutes, though she was first taken to a faith healer rather than hospital, a delay doctors say often costs lives.
A 12-year-old boy died after being bitten by a snake in his sleep in Alamdanga, Chuadanga, and his family says taking him to faith healers first delayed his arrival at hospital.
A 72-year-old man in China who cut off a cobra's head with a spade was bitten by the severed head five minutes later and spent two months in treatment before recovering.
Police have rescued a python about six feet long that was caught in fishermen's net in Paikerchhara beel in Bhurungamari, Kurigram.
