Woman, 32, bitten by brown snake discharged from hospital

The woman bitten by a brown snake on Sunday has been discharged from Flinders Medical Centre.

The 32-year-old woman bitten by what was believed to be a brown snake at Deep Creek on Sunday has been discharged from hospital.

SA Ambulance were notified of the bite at Deep Creek just after midday on Sunday, but because of the remoteness of the woman’s location a special operations team was discharged.

Emergency services eventually found the woman, conscious and breathing, and she was taken to Flinders Medical Centre by helicopter.

She was in a stable condition and has since been discharged.

There has been a rise in snake activity recently according to the owner of Snake Catchers Rolly Burrell.

“Because we’ve had a dry August, they’ve all started to wake up from hibernation,” Mr Burrell, a snake catcher for more than 40 years, said.

According to Mr Burrell, the snake season “started nearly two months early”, and he had seen an increase in call-outs over the past four weeks.

Mating season for snakes is usually in “September or October”, so the catcher warned they could appear in “all kinds of places soon”.

He advised people to avoid snakes if they see them.

“If you see a snake, just don’t interfere with it,” Mr Burrell said. “They’re not here to harm us in any way.”