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Travel My Hometown In L. Subscriber Exclusive Content. Why are people so dang obsessed with Mars? By Andrea Blanford. Share: Share Tweet Email. As an Orange County man bitten by a king cobra is recovering, a snake expert who's survived two king cobra bites himself said it easily could have been much worse. Ali Iyoob, 21, told a dispatcher Monday night a king cobra that he owns bit him inside his home. Cloud, Fla. From his snake colony, containing venomous snakes, he and his team collect venom for university labs, research projects, and two major pharmaceutical companies that manufacture antivenin.
Van Horn's been tracking Iyoob's story and said it's not surprising something like that happened to the former UNC biology major who works with Reptile Rescue of the Carolinas and has a clear passion for snakes. So, the shortest time you have is around minutes to act and act real purposefully to get the bite wrapped with anything you have close by.
You want to stop the venom from reaching the torso, where the two crucial muscles I mentioned earlier — the diaphragm and the heart — are located. Getting a bite from a King Cobra is probably not going to be fatal if you do the right thing after the bite. The right thing is to remain calm and wrap the bite site and the entire limb immediately with whatever you have available. Thomas E. Or as you said, treated with a dose of vitamin C — and no hospital?
Bryan Fry — one of the leading venom experts on the planet about Vitamin C used for snakebite. Vitamin C ascorbic acid has long been a folk-remedy for myriad ailments [] including snakebite [,,].
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