Fisherman Attacked by Croc

A crocodile carried off a Ugandan fisherman. (News source.)

Snakebites

A Florida off-duty deputy was bitten by a water moccasin at a youth fishing event. (News source.)

An Australian man was bitten by a death adder. (News source.)

Komodo Attack

A Komodo dragon bit a Komodo Island park ranger on the foot; it had apparently been chasing a monkey. This report doesn't say why or how it turned on the ranger.

[Update: a little more information on the attack here, but several details still missing.]

Boomslang Bites

Two men and a women in South Africa all handled a juvenile boomslang, getting bit in the process. (News source.)

Alligator Attack

An 11-year old girl in Brazil was killed by a crocodilian. Several news reports call it an alligator, which of course, is incorrect. (No gators in Brazil.) The reported length (15 feet) would make it a black caiman. (News source, and here.)

Venomous News

The Maryland woman who claimed she was bitten by a loose cobra has been charged by DNR with possession of two venomous snakes. (News source.)

Utah is considering allowing residents to keep rattlesnakes. (News source.)

Australian snakebites are on the rise (News source.); a hiker in Tasmania was bitten by an unidentified snake. (News source.)

Croc News

A Frenchman and Burundi resident is trying to hunt down Gustave, that country's infamous killer crocodile. (News source.)

A Uganda minister is trying to make it legal for residents to kill (and eat) crocodiles, which are a constant danger in that country. (News source.)

Mugger crocs in Iran are seriously on the decline due to poaching and habitat loss. (News source.)

A well-known large American crocodile, Wilma, on Sanibel, has been found dead. (News source.)

NC Rattler Bite

A Gaston County, NC, man was bitten by a rattlesnake in a friend's collection. (News source.)

MD Cobra Bite

A very strange case where a Maryland woman claims she picked up a "stick" in a parking lot that turned out to be a cobra. Philly Zoo sent antivenom. The woman is being questioned, as the story sounds a little fishy, and venomous species are illegal in the state. (News source, here, and here.)

Snakebitten

Another stunt by a South African man to win the world's record for days living with venomous snakes was thwarted when he was bitten by a puff adder. (News source.)

A North Carolina man was bitten by a timber rattlesnake. (News source.)

Frog vs Shrew

Interesting column here.

Snakebite News

A man in Adelaide, Australia, was bitten by a suspected venomous snake. (News source.)

An Australia snake park operator was bitten by an eastern brown snake. (News source.)

A curious Labrador retriever brought home a live venomous snake. (News source.)

Crocodilian Attacks

Eight fish poachers were killed by crocodiles by a dam in Zimbabwe. (News source.)

A teenage boy in Zambia was killed by a crocodile on Lake Kariba. (News source.)

A Malaysian man used his thumbs to fend off a crocodile. (News source.)

A South African woman was killed by a crocodile in the Olifants River. (News source.)

Two girls in Namibia were injured by crocodile attacks. (News source.)

Rattlesnakes vs Denim

A new study shows that denim clothing often reduces the amount of venom released by a rattlesnake during a bite. (Abstract; via Zach Barton)

Herp Attacks

A South African woman was killed by a crocodile while she was swimming in a river. (News source.)

A Czech man was hospitalized after being bitten by his pet puff adder, and he was bitten a few weeks ago by another venomous species. (News source.)

5 young children in Uganda were apparently killed by the same venomous snake when they went to get water from Lake Victoria. (News source.)

Uganda Man Killed by Croc

Despite warnings not to bathe in a lake at night, a Uganda man ignored them and was killed by a crocodile. (News source.)

Killer Croc Killed

Police in the Solomon Islands killed a crocodile they believe recently took a 7-year old boy. (News source.)

Malawi Croc Attacks

A Dutch national was attacked by a crocodile while he swam in a Malawi river. Elsewhere in the country, a woman was killed by crocodiles as she was fetching water. (News source.)

More Herp Attacks

A young Israeli man was killed by a venomous snake bite while hiking in South America. (News source, and here.)

Crocodiles killed a 13-year old Angolan boy, and a 12-year old Zambian girl.

Bad Suggestion for Snakebite

As any competent herpetologist knows, you really can't suck venom out of a snakebite. While it is great that a Florida man survived a cottonmouth bite without losing his arm, the treatment his roommate used and the newspaper features is outdated and dangerous. The focus should have been on the antivenom the man received; getting to a hospital as quickly as possible is the only thing a snakebite victim should be focusing on. (News source.)

Aussie Surfer Snakebit

A surfer at Killalea State Park was bitten by a red-bellied black snake. (News source.)

Croc News

A 12-year old girl in Zambia was killed by a crocodile, while swimming in the Chambeshi River. (News source.)

Pics were taken of a croc being killed by a herd of hippos, here.

Rattlesnake Bite Leads to Mounting Bills

An under-insured Minnesota man was bitten by a rattlesnake in his car, which has brought on mounting hospital bills. (News source.)

Crocodilians in the News

35 pure Siamese crocodiles were found among a larger group of rescued crocs in Cambodia. These will be used to help in the conservation of this endangered species. (News source.)

A profile here on a Namibian man attacked by a large crocodile.

A Florida man stuck his hands under a car, thinking his dog was under it, and got bit by an alligator. (News source.)

Snakebites

A Volusian County, FL, man was bitten by a cottonmouth while working at a landfill. (News source.)

Two Pasco County, FL, men were bitten by rattlesnakes. (News source.)

Double Whammy

A Florida man appears to have been bitten by a coral snake and a pygmy rattler at the same time. (News source.)

Reptile Attacks

A 68-year old Georgia man died from a rattlesnake bite sustained while hunting. (News source.)

A 16-year old boy was killed by a crocodile in the lower Zambezi river. (News source.)

A Melbourne, Australia, boy survived a brown snake bite. (News source.)

Gator Attack

An elderly golfer lost an arm to an alligator that attacked him when he went to pick up his ball. The attack occurred on Fripp Island, SC. (News source.)

Croc Attack in Kakadu

A 57-year old tourist at Kakadu National Park survived a crocodile attack while swimming in the wrong area. (News source.)

Herp Attacks

An Alabama farmer was apparently killed by a rattlesnake bite to the neck. (News source.)

A Florida woman narrowly escaped an alligator attack. (News source.)

SC Rattler Bite

Trying to retrieve a dove in the weeds, a South Carolina man was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite on National Parkland

A Wyoming prairie rattler bite, here.

Pygmy Rattler Bite

A Florida woman was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake, but fortunately it was a dry bite. (News source.)

More Dangerous Herp Encounters

Two people were reported bitten by venomous snakes in northern Wyoming this past weekend. (News source.)

Another crocodile attack in Brunei took a young boy. (News source.)

Borneo Croc Attack

A fisherman was attacked and killed by a crocodile along the Belait River. (News source.)

Bites

A Kansas man was bitten by a rattler near Lake Cheney. (News source.)

A man was bitten by a copperhead in a South Carolina Wal-Mart's garden center. (News source.)

Snakes and Snakebites

A Florida man was saved by quick antivenom response when he was apparently bitten by a green mamba. The snake's wherabouts are unknown, and where it came from is a mystery. (News source.)

A older snake story here, of a military training exercise that runs into a rattlesnake.

Details on the recovery of a Texas girl from a rattlesnake bite. (News source.)

Three Australians were bitten by the same snake of unknown species. (News source.)

A Trinidad woman died from a fer-de-lance bite when she didn't get antivenom in time. (News source.)

Snake Bites

A Washington, D.C., man bought a "python" from a neighbor that turned out to be a copperhead, which bit him. (News source.)

A coral snake bit a Florida man this weekend. (News source.)

Snakebites & Antivenom

A Florida coral snake bite got a bit tense as antivenom was delayed. (News source.)

No snakebite, fortunately, but a woman picked up a coral snake by accident in a Texas church, thinking it was a rosary. (News source.)

An Iraqi girl was helped with expert advice from the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Antivenom Unit. (News source.)

Snakebite Survey in Bangladesh

At least 6000 people in Bangladesh die every year from snakebite, according to a recent survey. (News source.)

Rattlesnake News

A pair of conjoined rattlesnakes were found in Tucson, and scheduled for surgery. (News source.)

A Florida woman shelled out double for human antivenom for her three dogs after they were bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. (News source.)

An Ontario hospital is stocking up on massasauga antivenom. (News source.)

A Missouri toddler was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. (News source.)

A British Columbia teenager was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

An 87-year old Florida woman was bitten by a pygmy rattler, then strangled it with her bare hands. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite in Arizona (Pics)

Some interesting images of a rattlesnake bite to the ankle, here.

India: Crocodile Attacks

A 9-year old Indian girl was killed by a crocodile at Traj Lake in Matar Taluka of Kheda District. (News source.)

A 50-year old Indian woman was killed and several others injured in a series of croc attacks " in and around the Bhitarkanika wildlife sanctuary." (News source.) Wildlife experts suggest that an error in choosing release sites under a crocodile conservation program makes human-croc encounters far too common. (News source.)

A 60-year old Indian man was killed by a crocodile while bathing in the Kharasrota river. (News source.)

Another Sistrurus Bite

A Florida man was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake in his driveway. (News source.)

Bites

An Ohio man was bit by his pet Gila monster. (News source.)

A UK man was bitten by an adder. (News source.)

Gator Bite

A Florida woman was bitten by an alligator while pulling weeds. (News source.)

Some Envenomations

A man was bitten by his pet beaded lizard. (News source.)

A Texas man was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

Three snakebite deaths were reported from India. (News source.)

Massasauga Bite

An Ontario woman was bitten by an eastern massasauga. (News source.)

Brown Snake Bite

A woman in New South Wales (Australia) was hospitalized for a brown snake bite. (News source.)

Problem Gators

A SC sheriff's deputy was fired for shooting at a gator without a nuisance gator permit. (News source.)

A Florida man lost two fingers to an alligator while rescuing his dog. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bites

A Florida man was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake while shopping in a Wal-Mart garden department. He plans to sue. (News source.) Now seriously, what idiot living in rattlesnake country seriously believes that it's a garden center's fault if he doesn't watch where he puts his hands? Snakes can be anywhere, there's no way to effectively prevent them, so common sense has to be applied.

Another man in Florida was driving through the Everglades when he stopped to rescue an eastern diamondback from the road, and ended up getting bit. (News source.)

Eastern Massasauga Bite

Details on a massasauga bite in Michigan, here.

Massachusetts Rattlesnake Bite

An unnamed researcher was bitten by a timber rattlesnake in the field, near Sheffield, MA. (News source.)

Crocodile News

A 52-year old Malaysian man survived a crocodile attack. (News source.)

Australian police are searching for thieves who stole 18 young saltwater crocs from a crocodile farm in Darwin. (News source.)

Snake Bites

A Connecticut man was bitten by a rattlesnake when he tried to pick it up. (News source.)

An Idaho woman was bitten by a small rattlesnake. (News source.)

A Florida man was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. (News source.)

Sri Lanka recorded approx. 33000 snakebites in 2008. (News source.)

Snake Bites (or Not)

A hiker was airlifted off the Blue Ridge Parkway for alleged snakebite (news source), with reports he was bitten five times by a timber rattlesnake, but medical evaluation says the snakebite story is false (news source), though the man remains hospitalized.

A Texas woman was bitten by a copperhead. (News source.)

Rattler Bites

Three people in Florida have been bitten by rattlesnakes in the last week. (News source.)

Fatal Attack by a Burmese Python

An unlicensed and improperly housed Burmese python killed a 2-year old girl in Florida. (News source, and here.)

Actually, while the stories say the python was a pet, it also says the man had "bagged and caged" the python the night before -- so was it a recently captured feral snake?

Snake Bites in the News

Another B.C. man was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

A hiker on the Appalachian Trail in Tennessee was bitten by a copperhead. (News source.)

Snake Bites

A Green Bay, Wisconsin, teen was bitten by a captive rattlesnake. It and several other illegally kept venomous snakes were confiscated. (News source.)

A Louisiana firefighter was bitten by a cottonmouth. (News source.)

More Crocodilian News

A swimmer in Mississippi may have been attacked by an alligator. (News source.)

The mystery crocodile deaths in South Africa still haven't been solved. (News source.)

Snakes A'Biting

An Alabama man was bitten by a cottonmouth. (News source.)

In Wilson County, Texas, a man was bitten by a coral snake, and a girl was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

A Utah girl went through a traumatic time with a rattlesnake bite. (News source.)

Venomous Snakes in the Middle East

"Swarms of snakes" in Iraq are moving to new areas due to drought, and end up biting livestock and people. (News source.)

And, an RAF crew in Kandahar had to deal with a viper during a rocket attack. They did manage to relocate it unharmed. (News source.)

Snake Bites in India

In two separate cases, a woman is killed by a snakebite, leaving her children orphans, and a woman and her young daughter both died from bites by the same snake.

Australia: Bit in the City

A Melbourne department store cleaner was bitten by a brown snake while throwing trash in a dumpster. (News source.)

Crocodilians

Hermes is farming crocs in Australia to meet demand for their crocodile-skin products. (News source.)

Two young Indian men fought of a crocodile that attacked their father. (News source.)

A profile here on a Florida gator trapper.

Don't do this with your kids (or your crocs).

Crocs in the News

A Cambodian croc farmer takes tourists through for a small fee -- showing them where the Khmer Rouge used to feed enemies to the crocodiles. (News source.)

A Congo fisherman was attacked by a crocodile, and ended up in a Texas hospital to have his arm reattached. (News source.)

Latest Snake Bites

An Oklahoma man was in serious pain after a small snake bit him. (News source.)

A Florida girl was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. (News source.)

Myanmar Croc Attack

A woodcutter was killed and eaten by a crocodile in the Myeik Archipelago. (News source.)

Snake Bites

A Utah girl was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

A Maryland man was bitten by a probable copperhead (and the snake lived to tell about it). (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite (Montana)

A schoolgirl was bitten by a young rattlesnake. (News source.)

Killer Crocs

Three crocodiles were killed in Zimbabwe after they killed and ate a man. (News source.)

When Herps Attack

A toddler in California was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

A 16-year old Florida boy was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake, and a schoolgirl was bitten by a water moccasin. (News source.)

Snakebites have increased by 75% in North Carolina this year. (News source.)

The latest gator attack victim has a new challenge now: mounting hospital bills, as he is uninsured. (News source.)

Alligator Attack

A Florida fisherman survived an attack by an 11-foot gator. (News source.)

Snakebites

A teenager was bitten by a baby rattlesnakes in Palouse Falls State Park, Washington. (News source.)

A Tennessee girl was apparently bitten by a venomous snake. (News source.) Seems to be a little confusion over the account, though.

A UK man was nipped by an adder. (News source.)

A snake-catcher in India was killed by a cobra. (News source.)

Helping Overseas

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Venom Response Team helped US Army doctors track down antivenom and treat an Iraqi officer who had been bitten by a cobra. (News source.)

Venomous Snakes and Snakebite News

A bushmaster and other venomous snakes were allegedly dumped in the woods near Haskell Indian Nations University, and are being hunted. (News source.) [Almost sounds like an animal-rights ploy, like the "cobra sightings" in South Carolina last year, except there are apparently actual sightings, assuming the identifications are correct. I'm not sure why someone would dump a bushmaster -- they're not inexpensive, and it wouldn't be hard to find a new home for one.]

An alleged snakebite death in a US soldier at a training camp is being reevaluated. (News source.)

A young California girl was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

A Wyoming man tried to suck the venom out of a rattlesnake bite on his dog's nose and ended up sick himself. (News source.)

A Swaziland cobra bite victim is being sent to the US for skin grafts. (News source.)

Villagers Fear Komodos

The increased attacks by Komodo dragons are terrorizing the local villages. (News source.)

Venomous Snakes in the News

A Chinese man tried to suck the venom out of a snake bite on his wife's leg, but ended up getting sick from that. (News source.)

Spanish police are refusing to confiscate a man's pythons, boas, and rattlesnake until antivenom is on hand, after the man himself was bitten. (News source.)

Crocodile Attack

A woman washing clothes in the river near Bhitarkanika National Park was attacked and killed by a crocodile. (News source.)

Six Hour Fight with Croc?

Not long ago, there was a story of a man in Africa fighting off a python for hours, and now there's a man in Zimbabwe who fought of a crocodile after a six hour struggle. Apparently, he lost an arm to the reptile, or it was amputated due to injuries. (News source.)

Snake Bite Roundup

A man in Spain was bitten by his pet rattlesnake. (News source.)

An Arizona snake-remover was bitten by a small rattlesnake. (News source.)

Crocodile News

Papua New Guinea youths trapped a large female crocodile alleged to have eaten 7 people. (News source, image here.)

The croc skin trade in Nigeria is booming, which may hurt the local croc populations. (News source.)

Lion Dies From Snakebite

A white lioness in a zoo in India was found dead from snakebite. (News source.)

When Your Eyes are Too Big for Your Stomach

This is what happens... (otherwise titled, Python vs Ibis).

Rattlesnake Bite

A Southern California man was bitten by a rattlesnake while in a cemetery, trying to shoo it away from his family. He is "fighting for his life," according to his wife. (News source.)

Herp Attacks

A man in India escaped attack from a 12-foot python. (News source.)

No, you should try to pet a rattlesnake. (News source.)

Crocodiles have killed 9 children recently in Angola. (News source.)

Solomon Island Croc Attack

A boy was killed and a girl injured when a crocodile attacked them along the Kolombangara river. (News source.)

Crocs

Cuban crocodiles are being ranched and released into the wild. (News source.)

A woman from a village in India's Bhitarkanika National Park was killed by a crocodile. (News source.)

Caiman Attack

We see lots of reports of crocs and gators attacking people; here is news of a woman attacked by a caiman, in Trinidad, bitten on the foot and hand. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite Hoax

A woman trying to hide drugs from police said her child had been bitten by a rattlesnake, launching a search effort and medical help. Charges will be filed. (News source.)

Snake Venom News

An article on the Global Snakebite Initiative, here.

And, the southern Pacific rattlesnake may be becoming more toxic. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite

A 26-year old biologist in California was bitten by a Southern Pacific rattlesnake near Corona. He was flown to Loma Linda University Hospital. (News source.)

Adder Bite in the UK

A 7-year old boy was treated for an adder bite. (News source.)

Python Attack

A Kenyan man had a scare when he was attacked by a python and dragged up a tree. He struggled for an hour, before being able to call for help on his cell phone. (News source.)

Malawi Croc Attacks

Five men have been attacked by crocodiles along the Shire River in Chikwawa and Nsanje districts of Malawi within a single week. Only two have survived the attacks. (News source.)

Crocodile Attacks

A 9-year old Australian boy survived an attack by a saltwater crocodile. (News source.)

A crocodile attacked a Zambian man while he was crossing a river. (News source.)

Antivenom Trouble

Turns out that saw-scaled vipers that eat scorpions are more toxic than those that eat mammals or reptiles. Antivenom currently in production only works on bites by the latter. (News source.)

Crocodilians in the News

An Australian man was killed by a large croc when he attempted to swim across a river where crocodiles were known to live. (News source, and here, and here.) Police shot the probable attacker.

A Zambian woman was killed by a crocodile while she was washing clothes at a river. (News source.)

Success in gharial breeding in India. (News source.)

The poor economy has hit a gator farm. (News source.)

Bites

A Slovenian reptile keeper was bitten by a venomous snake during feeding, but had the antivenom in stock. (News source.)

A young Australian girl was bitten by a brown snake on her doorstep. (News source.)