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Snakebites are rarer than you think, but if you collapse, CPR can save your life

  • Written by Geoff Isbister, Director, Clinical Toxicology Research Group, University of Newcastle
imageBites from brown snakes like this one were the most common, followed by tiger snakes, then red-bellied black snakes.Matt Clancy/SunOfErat/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Despite the common belief that Australia has some of the most venomous snakes in the world, our new research shows being bitten by a snake is uncommon in Australia and dying from a...

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