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Three snake bite victims taken to Gladstone, Sunshine Coast hospitals

Three people have been bitten by snakes in the past 24 hours - two of them in the same town where a 16-year-old boy recently died after being bitten by a suspected brown snake.

Three snake bite victims have been taken to Queensland hospitals after separate incidents.
Three snake bite victims have been taken to Queensland hospitals after separate incidents.

Three people have been taken to hospitals in Queensland after reported snake bites - two of them in the same town where a 16-year-old boy recently died after being bitten by a brown snake.

Paramedics were called to a private residence in Calliope at 6.14am on Saturday.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said a female patient was taken to Gladstone Hospital in a stable condition after a reported snake bite.

Further details including her age were not available.

Beau Horan, 16, died after a snake bite at Gladstone, in Central Queensland, in November. Picture: Supplied.
Beau Horan, 16, died after a snake bite at Gladstone, in Central Queensland, in November. Picture: Supplied.

In a separate incident on Friday night, paramedics were called to a private residence at East End, a rural locality in the Gladstone region, at 7.13pm where a man in his 60s was reportedly bitten on the finger by a snake.

He was taken to Gladstone Hospital in a stable condition.

Also on Friday, a man in his 50s was reportedly bitten on the foot by a snake at a private residence at Pelican Waters, about 6.03pm.

He was taken to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.

These three incidents come after the tragic loss of 16-year-old Gladstone boy Beau Horan (pictured), who died from a snake bite in November.

Beau was bitten on the foot by a brown snake on November 25 at his family home in Wurdong Heights, south of Gladstone. 

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