Man in his 60s bitten by snake at Berry Springs, taken to Palmerston Hospital
A MAN in his 60s has been bitten by a snake near Berry Springs and taken to Palmerston Hospital by paramedics
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A MAN in his 60s has been bitten by a snake near Berry Springs and taken to Palmerston Hospital by paramedics.
It is not yet known what species of snake bit him.
This makes it difficult to administer an anti-venom, St John Ambulance operations manager Craig Garraway told ABC Radio.
The man was bitten by the snake on Wednesday — the second reported snake bite in the Territory this week — after a 10-year-old Alice Springs girl was bitten on both feet by a King Brown snake that slithered into her bed on Tuesday.
An incident near Katherine on Monday, that was originally reported as a snake bite, turned out to be a false alarm.
After observation and tests at Katherine Hospital, doctors determined that the 47-year-old woman had no trace of venom in her system.
She was discharged from hospital the same day.
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Three people were bitten by snakes in separate incidents across the NT in one night in December, including a girl, 8, who was bitten when she went to open the fridge