Young girl bitten by a snake in Doomadgee

An 11-year-old girl in a remote community and a 63-year-old man have been bitten by snakes in two separate incidents within 24 hours.

An 11-year-old girl has been discharged from Doomadgee Hospital after being bitten by a snake at a private address on Tuesday evening.

She was transported to hospital in a stable condition and observed overnight before she was discharged on Wednesday morning.

Following the incident on tuesday, a 63-year-old man was transported to hospital on Wednesday morning after being bitten by a snake in his car.

Ambulance services attended to a suspected snake bite at an address in Seton Street, Trinity Park on Wednesday morning.

A Queensland Ambulance Services spokeswoman said the type of snake was unknown but it was already in the car before the man got in.

The patient was alert, breathing normally and in stable condition before being transported to Cairns Hospital for assessment.

Snakes can hide around building materials, debris around homes, bricks old car parts.

The two attacks follow a string of snake bites reported to Queensland Ambulance Services in the Far North, including a bite injury to an eight-year-old boy in Cape York earlier this month.

At the beginning of this year experts warned of baby snakes slipping into locked homes in FNQ.

According to statistics for triple-0 calls released by Queensland Ambulance Services for 2023, the Cairns and Hinterland region has reported 33 calls for suspected snake bites this year, with Cape York recording four call-outs and Townsville reporting 34 suspected cases.

Originally published as Young girl bitten by a snake in Doomadgee