This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor with Jeremy Zuckus in New South Wales,

where he has made certain in his broadcast moments to check around him for eastern brown snakes, for red-bellied black snakes for the usual

venomous lot because the snakes are on a rage. That's right. What started out

is anecdotal because of all that rain that happened last year

has turned into incidents that are not normal. We go first to the woman whom we reported last week, I believe she was in Queensland,

who found, well eventually found, that she was in the same bed as an eastern brown snake.

What do we know about how she survived Jeremy?

Well, John, we now know that she was actually absolutely asleep at the time when it

happened and she was bitten on her hand in between her fingers and what actually

woke her up was this searing, searing pain, moving up her hand, moving up her arm and it felt like a whole hand was on

fire apparently. But what we do know now is that she did what we all thought.

She immediately applied a torn a case. She quickly got the bandages on. She actually initially

called her mother and now it turns out so that her mother could call the property

owners of where she was staying because she was actually staying on a rural

property where she was working and the property owners who are very used to snakes and

what to do they were the ones that immediately

called the ambulance. They knew to call the local authorities too which

then got the helicopter in the air and everybody went perfectly for a

treatment. So they they got in there, they also immobilized her in the

accommodation so they made sure that she didn't move around and get that

blood pumping through her body and the venom going further into a system and

basically they did everything they had to do to actually save her life because the

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