Taipan bite in TinCan Bay ?.....

[redbellybite]

not sure how true the ID was ..

but they are claiming it was a taipan...

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Taipan bites Gympie girl

Lee Gailer | 13th April 2009

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Renee Pilcher

TWELVE-year-old Jaiden Walker is lucky to still be alive after being bitten by the world's second-most deadliest snake on Friday.
An aggressive hunter, the taipan would normally inflict several rapid bites to their victim however, except for a “flick up her ankle”, Jaiden didn't feel a thing.
She had walked to a nearby shop from her family's holiday home at Tin Can Bay and returned with ice-cream in hand, and a funny story about standing on a snake.
But it was no joke. An hour later, Jaiden collapsed on the lounge and her legs turned blue from the knees down.
Someone said “look for a bite” and the rest is a blur for Jaidens's parents, Shane and Belinda Walker.
Little bite marks were discovered on Jaiden's ankle and she was rushed by ambulance to Gympie Hospital where a test confirmed she had been bitten by a taipan.
Gympie Ambulance Service Officer in Charge Wayne Sachs said on the way to Gympie, Jaiden started vomiting and her pulse dropped right down.
“That's part of the systemic affects of a snake bite,” he said. “She was in a very serious way. The fang marks appeared to be from a juvenile taipan. That's probably what saved her.”
As the venom took hold of her system, Jaiden had body spasms and her face partly froze. Belinda said her daughter couldn't talk or see properly, and believes if it wasn't for the doctor and nurses at Gympie Hospital, Jaiden wouldn't be alive today.
“Whoever they were, we owe them our life,” Belinda said yesterday. “The doctor at the Intensive Care Unit in Brisbane said whoever the treating doctor was in Gympie, he saved her life.”
The Gympie doctor was guided by a specialist doctor in Victoria whose field of interest is snake bites.
Jaiden was airlifted to Royal Children's Hospital on Friday night and was discharged yesterday.

 

[funcouple]

wow lucky girl

 

[Cabotinage]

i thought the longest time some one has lived from a bite was 2 min?

even though it was a juvie wouldnt the venom be the same as she is a kid so like adult snake> adult human
juievenile snake> kid?

 

[snakehandler]

People have lasted a long time with Taipan bite, not all receive anti-venom either. I would not trust a person say by the teeth marks it was a taipan, I would prefer a snake venom detection kit!

 

[Kersten]

i thought the longest time some one has lived from a bite was 2 min?

Umm, no.

 

[Rainbow-Serpent]

What a lucky girl

 

[DanTheMan]

I would not trust a person say by the teeth marks it was a taipan, I would prefer a snake venom detection kit!

They only said that from the fangs it appears to be a juvie, and confirmed to be a Taipan from the venom.

She's lucky in 2 ways. 1, shes ok, and 2, she saw a Taipan up there!

 

[redbellybite]

The snake was stepped on ,so it reacted with a bite due to fright and no doubt probably pain.
the fact she was walking she may have not seen the snake untill after she stepped on it ,its bitten her and she has seen it scurry off into the grass.
the comment about being an adult and her at more risk ...could be due to the possibility of the taipans size and her chances of being bitten multiple times are far greater as an adult ,and would most likely have stood its ground....

 

[bigguy]

Snakehandler

Read article again. Tests showed it was a Taipan bite, the fangs marks confirmed it was a juvenile snake only.

Cabotinge. Qiuickest death from a Taipan that I know of was between 10 and 20 minutes. A young lad was bitten many times on the rump and rear thigh after he tried to kill a large Taipan near Cairns in the 1950's

 

[LullabyLizard]

Lucky, lucky girl!

 

[DanTheMan]

Cabotinge. Qiuickest death from a Taipan that I know of was between 10 and 20 minutes. A young lad was bitten many times on the rump and rear thigh after he tried to kill a large Taipan near Cairns in the 1950's

And the moral of the story is?

 

[aliveandkicking]

And the moral of the story is?

Use a shovel and don't turn your back?:lol:

 

[Earthling]

I was suspicous that they could confirm exact species from venom...I thought our tests showed only black or brown etc...However...this link expalins how they do it:
http://www.toxinology.com/generic_static_files/cslavh_svdk.html

 

[JasonL]

Use a shovel and don't turn your back?:lol:

more like a shotgun at 30 feet..

The story sounds plausable to me though..

 

[Australis]

the comment about being an adult and her at more risk ...could be due to the possibility of the taipans size and her chances of being bitten multiple times are far greater as an adult ,and would most likely have stood its ground....

Bigger snake, bigger yield.

 

[Cabotinage]

ahh i was wathcing some snake guy that did a show with the top 10 venomous snakes and hats what he siad well hes a BS

 

[m.punja]

whose chart claims taipans are the second deadliest snake in the world? I know the top ten chart isn't %100 accurate but I thought it at least went inland tai, eastern brown, coastal tai?

 

[wiz-fiz]

it seems that their have been even more snake "attacks" in recent months. she is lucky.


Will

 

[Pandora Pythons]

Extremely lucky girl. Especially considering there has been at least one report from a RBB bite on a child which resulted in death and when you check out the venom chart, the RBB is wayyy down the bottom compared to the tai at the top of the list!

Also lucky it was on the foot, if it had of been the hand or some where higher, the reaction would of been a lot swifter and nastier (probably wouldn't have survived).

Just curious to, how far do tai's come down the east coast now...as in Brisbane/Gold Coast?

 

[Jonno from ERD]

G'day Wayne,

Their distribution hasn't really changed. They are incredibly elusive snakes down here though...they have been as far south as Grafton. In SEQ, they are found around Beaudesert, Canungra, Blacksoil, Fernvale/Splityard Creek/Mount Glorious area, Samford Valley, Gympie area and Fraser Island.