| ▲ | alexpotato 3 hours ago | |
I remember watching a documentary in the late 1990s or early 2000s about a man getting bitten by a venomous snake at a research center. IIRC, he was a herpetologist and after calling 911, he took a voice recorder with him so that he could record the symptoms of the bite until he was treated at the hospital. Unlike the OP subject, he survived. | ||
| ▲ | adonovan 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Was it this herpetologist? Sadly he did not recover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Patterson_Schmidt | ||
| ▲ | somenameforme 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
911 didn't exist when he was bit. The chances of a hospital having an antivenom for an African snake would also be basically zero, and bites from the type of snake it was believed to be were not believed to be likely lethal at the time. | ||