Cobra update

[davo]

generally you will have time unless you live more then an hour away from one but if that is the case then you should re think keeping them
shortest anyone had ever reportedly died from a snake bite was 20 minutes but it was to the chest or jugular in which the venom got to the heart in seconds

there was a guy a couple of years ago that got bit by a juvenile black mamba on the finger while doing some kind of park guide course in south africa and they were learning about them. Waved his hands around or something and it just went for them. Stupidly they thought it was a dry bite and they actually just carried on with the lecture . Before 20 mins was up he was complaining of blurred vision and just went straight into a coma. Unfortunately by then it was too late for him and he'd died before the ambulance arrived.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3529594.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1581390/UK-student-dies-after-snake-bite-in-South-Africa.html

It's definately serious stuff, but what an error by the first aiders.

 

[coura]

Heeeeeeeeeee...I think I will stick to basilisks

 

[Mike D]

i love hots but will probably never own any. unless its a gila.

for now i will stick with my iguanas

 

[Tsubakai]

generally you will have time unless you live more then an hour away from one but if that is the case then you should re think keeping them
shortest anyone had ever reportedly died from a snake bite was 20 minutes but it was to the chest or jugular in which the venom got to the heart in seconds

There are multiple case reports of Eastern Brown snakes causing sudden death within seconds and not just with bites to chest or head. There are also reports of them causing collapse followed by recovery and then the more traditional envenomation syndrome. There has been a death this year where I live that was sudden and it wasn't until the autopsy that envenomation was even considered.

There is still so much unknown about venom.