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Bites climb from October and peak in summer, and six in ten hospital cases start around the house. The bandage method that works, and four things…
By Bishnu Adhikari · Sep 22, 2026
Snakebites in Australia start rising in October and peak in summer, and most of the bites that put people in hospital happen at or around home, not out in the bush. Deaths are rare, one to four a year, because the first aid works: call 000, keep the person…
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Bites start climbing in mid-spring, around October, and summer brings five to six times as many hospital cases as winter. That comes from the largest recent look at the data: a University of Melbourne team, part of the Australian Venomous Injuries Project…
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Where the place was recorded, about six in ten snakebite hospitalisations happened at or around a home. That was 4,193 cases in the Melbourne study: 67.6% of bites to women and 52.3% of bites to men. It makes sense once you picture it: snakes shelter in the…
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Call 000, keep the person still, and bandage the whole limb firmly. These are the steps from healthdirect, the Australian Government's health information service. Move away from the snake. Do not try to catch or kill it; you do not need it for the hospital to…
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Healthdirect lists seven groups: brown snakes, black snakes, tiger snakes, taipans, death adders, rough-scaled snakes and sea snakes. Brown snakes cause about one in three snakebite hospital visits. You cannot reliably identify a snake by colour, and the…
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None of these costs much, and together they remove most of the easy ways to get bitten. They apply on any warm-country trail. Boots and long trousers , or gaiters, on any track with long grass. Stay on the formed track and step onto logs and rocks rather than…
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The other warm-weather danger, and how to escape one. Short days, cold, hunters and bears. Sources: healthdirect Australia, "Snake bites" (reviewed October 2024); Afroz, Jackson and Watt, "Trends in injury hospitalisations due to contact with snakes in…
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