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50-Year-Old Central Florida Man Unconscious After Cobra Bite

Nanci

Nanci

Alien Lover
http://www.wftv.com/greatpets/16087669/detail.html


BUSHNELL, Fla. -- A man bitten by a cobra was struggling to survive Wednesday night. A crew urgently flew in 20 vials of antivenin in an effort to save his life.

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The man, 50-year-old Jack Eugene Hildreth, has a state permit to keep venomous reptiles, but the snake bit him on the thumb during feeding. Hildreth has now been unconscious for hours and doctors at Orlando Regional Medical Center are trying to save his life; they need the antivenin to do it.

A small plane from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Venom Response Team arrived Wednesday at Orlando Executive Airport with a box full of life-saving antivenin. Two shipments were flown in, the first early Wednesday morning and the second late in the afternoon.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission said Hildreth, who lives on North West Street in Bushnell (see map), was bitten by his pet Indian cobra, a reptile with extremely dangerous venom. Channel 9 has learned the man was feeding the snake a mouse when it happened.

The bite occurred in the man's home around 12:30am and he was able to call 911. He first went to Leesburg Regional Hospital, but was later airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center, where so far the victim has not responded to the antivenin treatment. He's said to be in critical condition and unconscious.

The snake is not on the loose, so there is no danger to public.
 
I can only hope that this man, who helps preserve dangerous wildlife, survives. A truly inspiration.
Keeping any animal that is a risk to your life, shows ultimate courage. And at 50 years old, I'm guessing he keeps them for personal interest and not just to show off.
Keep us updated please Nanci. :)
 
:) lawl. the pet store that i always go to was on the news. ): ... with the guy that like wants to be ozzy osbourne and his jungle carpet pythons.
 
Pet Corn Snake said:
I can only hope that this man, who helps preserve dangerous wildlife, survives. A truly inspiration.
Keeping any animal that is a risk to your life, shows ultimate courage.
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Preserve dangerous wildlife? Is there more to the article then what I read? Does he run a conservation area or something?

Pet Corn Snake said:
Keeping any animal that is a risk to your life, shows ultimate courage.
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I'm not sure that always goes hand in hand. There are a lot of HOT owners I've met at the SC Reptile shows and some them are not full of courage...


Thanks for the post Nanci. Interesting the guy was a permitted keeper...although necessary in FL you don't always see that when bites happen.
 
Pet Corn Snake said:
I can only hope that this man, who helps preserve dangerous wildlife, survives. A truly inspiration.
Keeping any animal that is a risk to your life, shows ultimate courage. And at 50 years old, I'm guessing he keeps them for personal interest and not just to show off.
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Courage? Really? I know there are probably some hot keepers here, but I wouldn't call it courage. Courage is running into a burning building to save someone. Keeping an animal that you know could kill you for your own personal interests is at best a calculated risk, and at worst stupidity.

I am not in any way inspired by hot keepers. I am inspired by people who work toward conservation and rescue, and while this guy might be either of those it wasn't mentioned in the article so I'll just reserve judgment on this one.
 
I only just found this thread........
Cobra bites are neurotoxic....If you can get to a hospital and they have a life support machine, to take over your breathing, you should survive...
Neurotoxins block recievers that pick up the signals that tell you to breath. When 30% are full you stop breathing......
 
That's what I was hoping- that it would be similar to a coral snake bite- a week on a ventilator and then start rehab...
 
Nanci said:
That's what I was hoping- that it would be similar to a coral snake bite- a week on a ventilator and then start rehab...
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Craig and I were discussing this incident at the serpentarium, I never saw a follow up, but apparently he had. :wavey:
 
This is one of the reasons i am so against hots. I think they are amazing animals. i know a man who does talks with rattle snakes. he does have a legal permit from the state of Minnesota, i believe its an educational permit. But the state does call him in to deal with rattlesnakes and other dangerous herps.
but the man has been dealing with rattlesnakes for a very long time and has been a zoo keeper for over 25 years.

One of the more interesting tidbits he has told me about hots is that MN does not have anti venom for anything outside Rattlesnake bites. For those keepers here who are bitten by other animals, well they anti venom has to be flown in outta of state. But we typically do not hear in the news about those. very few stories do reach the media of a person bitten by their hot reptile. i guess alot of it is kept hush hush...
 
I know two people who have been bit by cobras.....One was a king cobra, that laid Adam up for a week or two..
The other was a monocle cobra, Nothing happened as it was a dry bite.
I'm not against people keeping Hots in the UK as it is strictly controlled......
I'm not sure about the states as I don't know how it is controlled over there...
And I doubt if they hush up things like venomous bites, after all it's news and people love to bump their gums over things they don't understand....
 
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