Five snakebites across Mackay, Cairns, Ipswich and Warwick
It might be May, but the snakes are still out with Qld paramedics responding to multiple bite call-outs across the state.
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Paramedics have responded to multiple snakebite call-outs in recent days despite cooling weather.
Two have been in the Mackay region where a jogger in her 20s recently went off a cliff after being bitten at Slade Point.
On Saturday, paramedics were called to a property at Andergrove following reports another woman had been bitten about 1.10am.
She was taken to Mackay hospital in a stable condition.
It comes three days after a man in his 50s was bitten by a snake at a Mackay property on Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday, a man in his 40s was bitten on the leg at Cairns about 7.14pm.
Both men were taken to hospital in a stable condition.
There’s also been call-outs in the state’s south.
A man in his 60s was bitten by a snake at Warwick overnight.
Paramedics were called to the property at 7.14pm Friday and took the man to Warwick hospital in a stable condition.
Last Sunday, at Coominya west of Brisbane, a man in his 60s was bitten about 9.09pm and taken to Ipswich hospital, also in a stable condition.
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