Man in 60s taken to hospital after snake bite at Coonar

A man in his 60s has been taken to hospital after a snakebite in the same region where three people, including a teenager who was struck on the chest, have been bitten in recent days.

Three people in the Wide Bay Burnett have been taken to hospital after being bitten by snakes this week.

A man has been bitten by a snake in the Wide Bay Burnett – the third call-out of its kind in the region in just a few days.

Paramedics were called to the address at Coonar near Bundaberg about 5.59am Saturday.

The man in his 60s was taken to hospital in a stable condition.

It comes after multiple snakebites in the region including a teenager who was struck in the chest off Eidsvold Theodore Rd at 9.50pm Wednesday and a man in his 60s bitten on the leg at a property at Hose Camp southwest of Gin Gin prompted a warning from Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service for residents to take extra care over summer.

The Coonar snakebite was one of several across the state in the past 24 hours.

Paramedics also transported one stable female patient in her 50s to the Mater Hospital in Brisbane after a reported snake bite at a private address at 6.07pm Friday.

In the state’s north, a stable female patient in her 30s was taken to Innisfail Hospital following a reported snake bite at a private address at 11.02pm Friday in Mundoo.

Earlier in the week, a man in his 50s in a stable condition was taken to Mount Isa Hospital following a snake bite on West Street at 8.32pm Wednesday while a man in his 30s was taken in a stable condition to Ipswich Hospital following a snake bite at a private address at 6.59pm the same night.

While most snakebites in recent weeks have not been serious, one teenager at Gladstone was not so lucky.

Beau Horan, 16, died after he was bitten by what is believed to have been an eastern brown.