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#OzWatch: Tiger snake traegdy in Melbourne; and a Tiger Snake in the NSW neighborhood. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#OzWatch: Tiger snake traegdy in Melbourne; and a Tiger Snake in the NSW neighborhood. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/animals/melbourne-snake-catcher-mark-pelley-fights-for-life-after-bitten-by-venomous-tiger-snake-c-13962412

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Jeremy Zuckus in New South Wales is here.

0:35.2

Last week we talked about a snake catcher who had been bitten now a lifetime three times, and

0:40.9

it was time to retire. Now I don't know how many times this particular

0:46.2

snake catcher has been bitten, but it was a tiger snake and we've not talked about

0:50.2

tiger snakes and something about the bite on his hand you could see it to needle marks and he

0:58.4

collapsed he stopped breathing how is he now Jeremy he? He did, he did, John.

1:04.0

He is now doing slightly better, but still not doing great.

1:07.8

He's out of intensive care in Melbourne and basically going into, I guess he could say, a recovery phase phase for his illness but still in and out of consciousness

1:15.3

still it reportedly in a coma of such and still not out of the woods yet because the snake bite the tiger snake bite apparently got right into his nervous system almost

1:25.3

instantaneously and basically he did stop breathing for some period immediately after the bite and

1:30.4

and now Melbourne in Victoria which is a big city it's a large city it's not

1:34.8

really known for its tiger snakes as well so in some ways this is a very very

1:39.5

unlucky event and this poor guy while while he looks like he's on the road to recovery when he comes out of his

1:45.6

coma and starts to come back to I guess normality there may be some permanent injury so

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