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The eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis), often referred to as the common brown snake, is a species of extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to eastern and central Australia and southern New Guinea. It was first described by André Marie Constant Duméril, Gabriel Bibron, and Auguste Duméril in 1854. The ...
Suspected Eastern brown snake: Unknown, 25yo male Nullawil, Victoria; bitten while working at a grain receival site, later died in hospital. [121] 20 March 2024 Eastern brown snake: Jerromy Brookes, 47yo male Deeragun, Queensland; suffered multiple snake bites on his left arm at a childcare centre, later died in hospital. [122] 27 November 2024
A snake catcher showed up and saved the day in Buderim, Queensland, after a “dangerously venomous” eastern brown snake bit a woman.Stuart McKenzie from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 said ...
Eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) The Eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) has a venom LD 50 value of 0.053 mg SC (Brown, 1973) and a value of 0.0365 mg SC (Ernst and Zug et al. 1996). Average venom yield is 2–6 mg (Meier and White, 1995).
Eastern brown snakes, averaging about 5 feet in length, are known to put “on a fierce display” and bite without hesitation, according to the Australian Museum. “The venom of an eastern brown ...
The eastern brown snake is the cause of “more deaths from snake bite than any other species of snake in Australia,” according to the Australian Museum website.
The coroner's office listed the cause of death as a heart attack, with the snake bite as a contributing factor. Witnesses told investigators that Brown had seen a snake in one of the tents and was trying to remove it when the snake bit him on the right thumb. [30] May 28, 2012 Mark Randall Wolford, 44, male: Timber rattlesnake
Now, eastern brown snakes are responsible for the most bites of any snake species. Read the original article on People. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.