A teenage girl has been taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition after being bitten by a snake in Queensland.<\/p>\n
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesperson (QAS) said paramedics were called Sir Leslie Thiess Drive ferry terminal in Townsville about 8.30am on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They said the teenager had been bitten on the ankle and was taken to Townsville University Hospital in a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n
The hospital said the girl was in a stable condition on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
QAS data shows there have been more than 770 reported snake bites so far this year across the state.<\/p>\n
There have been 83 reported snake bites in Townsville, the most in regional Queensland.<\/p>\n
Last day of winter<\/p>\n
Magnetic Island snake handler Rod Thorne said he expected call-outs to increase as warmer weather set in.<\/p>\n
“Snakes are still certainly moving about and during summer you’re going to see more of them,” he said.<\/p>\n
“In the last two to three weeks I’ve had about four call-outs, this could be anything from death adders, pythons and tree snakes.”<\/p>\n
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Rod Thorne says snakes are moving about.\u00a0 (Supplied: Rod Thorne)<\/p>\n
Mr Thorne said it was important to be prepared for snake sightings and not attempt to relocate them.<\/p>\n
“Wear proper clothing and if you’re out in the garden have your phone on you,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Just leave them be and a snake catcher will remove them, particularly if there are small kids or pets about.”<\/p>\n
A QAS spokesperson said anyone who suspected they had been bitten by a snake should ring triple-0 immediately.<\/p>\n
“While waiting for medical help, the patient’s breathing and conscious level should continue to be monitored, and first aid principles should be followed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage girl has been taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition after being bitten by a snake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,77741,701,10472,77740,15035,77739],"class_list":["post-108508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-qas","tag-queensland","tag-queensland-ambulance-service","tag-snake-bite","tag-snakes","tag-warm-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}