00:00 Paramedics say the man's wife did all she could to try and save her husband after he
00:06 was bitten by a snake in Townsville yesterday afternoon.
00:10 Emergency services were called to the suburb of Deerigan after three o'clock.
00:14 They found the 47-year-old man in cardiac arrest with numerous snake bites to his left
00:19 arm.
00:21 Ambulance officers say the man had driven himself home before emergency services could
00:25 be alerted.
00:27 He was taken to Townsville Hospital in a critical condition but couldn't be saved.
00:32 Initially authorities said it was thought the man had been bitten by a highly venomous
00:36 eastern brown snake but that's still being confirmed.
00:40 They've said any snake bite should be treated as potentially venomous and people should
00:45 apply first aid and call triple zero.
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