| Accident - unavoidable without exceptional awareness.
Herp - herpetologist bitten while handling snake.
Kill - bitten while killing snake.
Mis ID - bitten while handling venomous snake believing it to be harmless.
Trod - bitten after treading on snake.
? - insufficient data to determine cause.
Figure 2. Comparing the relative frequency of causes of snakebite in Australia resulting in the deaths of 40 people over a 27 year period (from Sutherland, 1992 & 1994 and media reports for 1993-2007).
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