Bitten by a cobra, a child retaliates for the animal’s greatest misfortune

The fatal response. In the remote village of Pandarpadh in the Jashpur district of northeast India, an unusual incident occurred on October 31, 2022. An eight-year-old boy was bitten by a poisonous cobra while playing in the backyard of his house. “The snake wrapped around my hand and bit me. I was in a lot of pain. Since the reptile did not move when I tried to shake it, I bit it hard twice. Everything happened. ‘passed site’tells the young survivor named Deepak to the newspaper The New Indian Express. He killed the snake.

A dry bite

His family rushed him to a medical center. “We quickly gave him an antivenom and kept him under observation all day before releasing him”, said the doctor in charge. The reason why Deepak did not show any symptoms is because it was abouta dry bite. That is, the snake did not release venom when bitten. Such cases are rare. “I have never faced such an incident in Jashpur district”, said Ramesh Sharma, a local journalist. Jashpur is a tribal district, also known as Naglok which means “abode of serpents” as it is inhabited more than 200 species of these reptiles.

In Brazil, a little boy didn’t have the chance to make it like Deepak. the drama happened in a campsite in the state of São Paulo. The boy was bitten while putting on his shoes inside which a scorpion had taken up residence. After doing no less than seven cardiac arrests in 48 hours, the young boy died. He was killed by a Tityus serrulatus, a Brazilian yellow scorpion.