S8 Ep188: Queensland Girl Bitten by Snake Now Fundraising for Rescue Helicopter: Colleague Jeremy Zakis recounts the survival of Joanna Lamb, a ten-year-old Queensland girl bitten by a deadly Eastern Brown snake, noting that after being saved by an air ambulance, s
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🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Everything in Australia is exotic and will try to kill you. |
| 0:08.1 | Jeremy Sackas is here to remember the story of the little girl who was suddenly bitten by a great eastern brown. |
| 0:15.3 | That is death within a half an hour unless you have a very strong immune system, which she did. |
| 0:20.2 | But there's more to it |
| 0:21.7 | than that is part two. First of all, she's alive. That's a miracle in itself because she was hit |
| 0:29.1 | without knowing it. Did she testify afterwards she felt it right away or was she worried that |
| 0:36.1 | she stepped on something and it wasn't a bite? |
| 0:39.7 | How did she record what it felt like, Jeremy? |
| 0:43.9 | Yes, she did. |
| 0:44.9 | She very much knew that she had been bitten because it was actually a very sharp pain, |
| 0:48.9 | a very strong striking pain. |
| 0:51.1 | So luckily, she recognized what had actually happened. |
| 0:53.3 | And I believe she actually did catch in the corner of her eye or managed to actually see at least the tail end of the snake |
| 0:59.3 | as well. So she was very, very lucky that she knew exactly what had happened when it happened. |
| 1:04.3 | Where are they? Where is this location? This is in Queensland. So this is in around about |
| 1:10.5 | central Queensland. So if you in around about central Queensland. |
| 1:11.6 | So if you drive straight up from Brisbane for about three and a half hours, |
| 1:14.9 | you'll effectively hit it. |
| 1:16.5 | And it's in a very, very, I guess you could say, |
| 1:19.2 | isolated part of Queensland. |
| 1:22.4 | Which is why, having survived it miraculously, |
| 1:27.1 | they got her to the clinic on time for her. |
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