Woman bitten by snake while taking dog for walk at Cawarral
A woman has been taken to hospital after she was bitten by a snake while walking a dog in Central Queensland.
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A woman has been taken to hospital after a snake bit her while she was walking a dog in Central Queensland on Saturday afternoon.
Paramedics were called to a private residence off Glenora Road at Cawarral just before 2pm.
Cawarral is a rural town situated about halfway between Rockhampton and Yeppoon.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the woman in her 30s was taken to Rockhampton Hospital in a stable condition.
It’s been a busy season for snake bites across the state.
Along with regular Queensland Ambulance Service callouts, a Townsville man tragically died while trying to remove a snake from a childcare centre last month.
Earlier this week, a snake-catcher in the south-west also revealed he had suffered multiple bites from an eastern brown but once in hospital, was grateful to find they had been “dry” bites.
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