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#OZWATCH: Surging snakes in El Nino.. Jeremy Zakis, NSW

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#OZWATCH: Surging snakes in El Nino.. Jeremy Zakis, NSW

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-05/snake-bite-bandage-saves-surfer-beach-sandon-nsw/102937166

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0:06.8

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0:33.3

A Queensland woman urging people to carry compression bandages at the beach.

0:39.0

Kate Miller, 62, was bitten on the leg by a brown snake near Sandin in northern New South Wales,

0:45.6

two weeks ago. She says, I pulled my towel off a log. It didn't see the snake underneath,

0:51.3

and it just lurched at me in a bit. The two bite marks where the fangs were,

0:56.4

the blood was pulsing out like blood coming out of a syringe.

1:00.4

Ms. Miller, a lifesaver, said her first-aid trading kicked in.

1:04.0

She asked a group of nearby surfers to take a photo to identify this snake. She kept her sock

1:11.2

to give the hospital for traces of venom on the socky bit through. I set down and pretended

1:17.5

I was calm, which I really wasn't, and then there are photographs of her

1:22.3

foot all bandaged up. Jeremy, she was at the beach. I'm not going to the beach.

1:26.4

Okay? It's not going to happen, especially in springtime, but this is not the most of it.

1:32.3

We also have snakes in the bathroom while somebody's taking a shower.

1:37.2

Red-bellied black snakes in bed. Is there something unusual going on? Is this El Nino making

1:42.9

things warm early? I think it is. I think the answer is yes. In fact, we have been warned about

1:49.9

that. In the fact that El Nino is bringing the snakes out very early and bringing them out in

1:54.5

all sorts of weird and wonderful places. So, firstly, starting with Ms. Miller on the beach,

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