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<\/p>\nAn Australian woman is lucky to be alive after an eastern brown snake – one of the most venomous snakes on the planet – became tangled in her shoe during a bushwalk near Sydney on the weekend.<\/p>\n
Snake catcher Cory Kerewaro said in a post to Facebook that the woman had been geocaching, a treasure-hunt-style game using online GPS coordinates, in south-west Sydney on Saturday when she felt something slither around her leg.<\/p>\n
“She’s gone to jump out of the garden bed, gone to shake her leg off thinking a big leaf had wrapped around her leg and it was actually an eastern brown snake.”<\/p>\n
Eastern brown snakes were responsible for more deaths than any other Australian snake, with the venom potentially fatal in less than 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
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Eastern brown snakes were responsible for more deaths than any other Australian snake, with the venom potentially fatal in less than 15 minutes. (Source: Cory Kerewaro)<\/p>\n
Kerewaro praised the woman’s willpower to stay calm, as the agitated snake then became trapped in the heel loop of her shoe.<\/p>\n
“When she noticed it was a snake, she stayed absolutely still, and that’s when it went through the loop and got itself caught,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s nearly unbelievable; something like this tops anything I’ve done.”<\/p>\n
Paramedics and Kerewaro were called to the scene at around 3.30pm (local time) on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“We quickly pinned the snake, undid the lady’s shoe and got her out of danger’s way \u2026The paramedics absolutely saved her life.”<\/p>\n
The woman had marks on her legs, so medics treated her for a possible bite, applying a pressure bandage and immobilising the limb before taking her to hospital for antivenom.<\/p>\n
“She\u2019s just going to take a couple of days\u2019 rest and process it all, but she\u2019ll be OK,” Kerewaro said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian woman is lucky to be alive after an eastern brown snake – one of the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,85,42,134,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-198547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-animals","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}