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A snake expert who catches chook-pen pythons to huge eastern browns in the burbs has spoken out as bite callouts increase across Qld and one region emerges as a deadly hotspot. SEE THE LIST.

A snake expert who catches chook-pen pythons to huge eastern browns in the burbs has spoken out as bite callouts increase across Qld and one region emerges as a deadly hotspot. SEE THE LIST.

The sooner one is treated after a bite, the better the chances of survival. I would like to call on traditional healers not to attend to a patient who has been bitten by a snake,” he said.

Dr Quinton said it was rare for animals to be envenomated in circumstances where they were not actively hunting a snake, and that often the first bite from an mature snake would be a dry warning bite.