Man in his 50s dies while trying to catch a king cobra with his bare hands in Vietnam

I didn’t go to the hospital immediately after biting my bare hand… death due to organ damage

(Hanoi = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Beom-soo = In southern Vietnam, a man in his 50s was bitten and killed while trying to catch a king cobra with his bare hands.

According to VN Express, a local media on the 13th, a 57-year-old man living in the southern Dong Nai province on the 10th went to catch a snake with his neighbors when a snake appeared near his home.

When the snake went into the ground in the yard, the man dug a hole and grabbed it with his bare hands.

However, in the process of putting the snake into the sack, he eventually bit his hand and did not go to the hospital.

Later, when the snake bitten area necrosis, he realized that his condition was serious and went to a nearby hospital, but after several organs were damaged.

Medical staff treated him with dialysis and other methods, but his condition did not improve and he eventually died at home.

Nearby residents killed a viper in a panic when a neighboring man died.

The snake that bit this man is a king cobra, which has enough venom to kill an elephant with one bite.

If you are bitten by a king cobra, the risk of death is very high if not treated in a timely manner.

In the rural areas of southern Vietnam, the number of people bitten by poisonous snakes is common.

Previously, in 2020, a 38-year-old man in southern Tay Ninh province was bitten by a king cobra and suffered from death after being treated for several weeks in an intensive care unit and survived.

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