‘I tried to get away from it but it was too fast’: Boy, four, is lucky to be alive after being bitten by a deadly brown snake while on a walk with his father
- Gympie youngster bitten on the toe by a suspected brown snake this month
- Jaxon Bird, 4, rushed to Gympie Hospital following his near-death experience
- He most likely suffered a dry bite, in which the snake doesn’t inject venom
- Happened a week after another youngster were bitten in separate incident in WA
An afternoon walk ended in a frantic trip to hospital for a Queensland youngster earlier this month.
Four-year-old Jaxon Bird was walking along a creeskside track with his dad at Langshaw near Gympie when what’s suspected to be a brown snake suddenly emerged from a pile of leaves and bit him on the foot before he could react.
‘I tried to get away from it but it was too fast. It looked like a sliding stick,’ the youngster told The Gympie Times.
A Gympie youngster was bitten by a suspected brown snake (stock image) earlier this month
Dad Josh added: ‘As soon as I realised it looked like a snake bit him … we jumped straight in the car. I was just hoping for the best and worried as hell. Those little blood dots were a centimetre apart (and there were) two distinctive teeth marks.’
The youngster spent seven hours in Gympie Hospital following his near death- experience.
The deadly serpent (stock image) is responsible for 60 per cent of snake bite deaths in Australia
It’s understood Jaxon suffered a dry bite, in which the snake doesn’t inject venom.
Jaxon’s mother Kirby said snakes were often seen near their home in the four years they’ve lived there.
Jaxon wasn’t too fazed by the ordeal and was running around outside barefoot the morning after the scare.
The brown snake is considered the world’s second-most venomous land snake and is responsible for 60 per cent of snake bite deaths in Australia.
Envenomation can result in paralysis, uncontrollable bleeding and death if left untreated.
Jaxon was rushed to Gympie Hospital (pictured) after he was bitten on the toe
Jaxon’s ordeal happened a week after an youngsters were bitten by the deadly reptile in separate incidents in Western Australia last month.
Emilia Barnard, four, stopped breathing for nearly two minutes after she was bitten on the foot in a remote part of Western Australia while she was holidaying with family in Coral Bay last month.
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