Snake bite

The hiker said his "entire foot looked like a giant sausage."

The California-based snake enthusiast initially thought it was only a "love tap"—until he took a closer look at his arm.

The 4-year-old mastiff cross, Ruby, began showing signs of improvement on the morning of the wedding.

After deciding to bite a poisonous snake in revenge for biting his leg, the 45-year-old visited a traditional healer nearby instead of seeking medical attention from a doctor.

"It was right in my ankle and I felt a really sharp, stinging pain," the 21-year-old said. "Then I saw the snake right on the trail."

The 65-year-old reportedly picked up the snake and began chewing on it in retaliation for being bitten earlier.

"This could be pretty devastating...We can't afford to lose [snakes] as a whole," one expert said in 2017.

Medical professionals told the schoolgirl's mother they had "never seen anything like this."

A man was bitten on his genitals by a snake hiding inside his toilet bowl in Austria on Monday, with local police saying that the 65-year-old was surprised to feel "a 'tweak' in the area of genitals" after sitting down.

"It felt like I broke my hand...plus with fire pain going through my hand," the teen girl said.

"The amount of times that snake bit her, was enough to kind of sedate an elephant at this point basically," the girl's mom alleged.

Marley, a Labrador, got between his owner Alex Loredo, and the venomous snake and was bitten in the process.

A woman was arrested Monday for drowning her stepchildren after initially claiming that a poisonous snake bite killed them. She told family members she no longer wanted the responsibility of raising the children.

Researchers in India made the concerning discovery, with their findings made public earlier this year.

An NC woman, got a big shock on Saturday when she disturbed a snake hiding in her bushes. The snake struck her and, in an effort to save herself from a second attack, she toppled off the six-foot ladder.

The Palm Springs Mounted Police Search and Rescue team jumped into action to save the child, who was then taken to a nearby medical facility.

The ASPCA estimates there may be over 100,000 venomous snake bites that occur in dogs and cats every year and the mortality rate ranges from 1 to 30 percent.

Dai Bao, named after Disney's Dumbo, was rescued as a stray off the streets and heartbreakingly died defending his family from a four-foot snake.

Thankfully, the girl is doing fine, and one of the key reasons that she survived is because her grandmother administered effective first-aid immediately.

The man initially thought that he had stepped on a stick until he realized it was a highly venomous brown snake.

David Miles was rushed to hospital after his three-foot-long tiger snake mistook his hand for food, sinking its fangs deep into his skin to release the life-threatening venom in regional South Australia.

The National Parks Service said they had witnessed a "noticeable uptick in rattlesnake bites" this summer.

The snake bit the 79-year-old several times on his leg and hand before wrapping itself around his arm.

"The doctors said I wouldn't be here today if I hadn't have gone to the hospital when I did. When I came around, I was just in shock," said snake bite victim Nikita Aldridge.

Deakin Hawke had been on a week-long school trip to Canberra in Australia when he was bitten by a venomous snake.

The snake responsible for the unexpected bite is believed to have been an eastern brown or a death adder, officials said. The victim was identified by police as a 54-year-old male, of Queensland.

The attack, which occurred in Horry County, left the young victim with two fang marks that quickly turned into dark bruising and discoloration.

Jamie Lind said he used his phone to call his wife and tell his children that he loved them because he believed he could die.

"She was in a lot of pain, there was a lot of swelling, and she had tingling in her arm," the victim's daughter said.

Doctors say his wound could take more than six months to heal fully.