Police in Australia are investigating how a teenager near Sydney came to be bitten by the world's most venomous snake.
The 17-year-old boy was bitten on the hand by an Inland Taipan snake, which usually lives in desert areas.
The boy is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after being given anti-venom.
A drop of Inland Taipan venom is enough to kill 100 people and causes paralysis.
The snake is also more commonly known as the fierce snake, because of the venom's strength rather than the reptile's temperament.
"Police are now attempting to establish how the youth came to be bitten, and hope to speak to the young man once he is considered well enough,"New South Wales police said in a statement.
Officials at Mater hospital in Newcastle City, where the boy is being treated, said that the anti-venom was crucial to his survival.
Continued: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19739656
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Monday, 1 October 2012
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