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Ravers getting high off of cobra venom in India [Video]
New Delhi :: India | over 1 year ago
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Ravers getting high off of cobra venom in India Remember those rare cases of down-and-out souls getting loaded off of snake bites? Well, it looks like cobra venom has gone mainstream for a certain demographic of Indian partygoer. India Today reports
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Not your usual first-aid class
Salem :: OR :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Written by Statesman Journal Filed Under Mike Niemeyer wants to break your arm, or maybe your leg...And for no extra charge, he might gouge out an eye or give you a sucking chest wound. Niemeyer's nickname isn't "Mikey the Punisher," and he isn't an
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The snake whose bite can send you back through puberty [Biology]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The snake whose bite can send you back through puberty We've gotten used to animals having strange powers like using sound to create 'vision,' seeing more colors than we do, and sensing polarized light or the magnetic field of the earth. But did you
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Dog kills snake which bit owner
Cape Town :: South Africa | over 1 year ago
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A 14-year-old Jack Russell terrier killed a puff adder as it got one of its fangs stuck in his owner's toe, the snake bite victim has recounted. Joy Weston, 68, from the farm DeVilliershoop in the Jakkalsdal district in the Northern Cape, was walking
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Dog saves children from deadly snake
Ipswich :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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THE bravery of a red cattle dog has been credited with saving the lives of two Queensland children in Ipswich from the bite of a highly venomous eastern brown snake. River, an 18-month-old bitch, jumped between the rearing snake and the children as
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STING OPERATIONS: The deadly delays in our poisons database
Canberra :: Australia | over 1 year ago
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Health professionals have renewed calls for a national antidotes database to help quickly treat Australia's thousands of poisoning victims suffering everything from deadly snake and spider bites to swallowing household chemicals. Poisons specialist
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8-year-old bitten by rattlesnake leaves hospital
North Charleston :: SC :: USA | over 1 year ago
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An 8-year-old Goose Creek boy is finally home after spending more than a month in the hospital recovering from a rattlesnake bite suffered at a North Charleston park. Zach Szala's father told The Post and Courier of Charleston ( http://bit.ly/vmOd75)
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Lawrence jury hears racist rants
Dunstable :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Jury hears defendants' racist rants Mr Lawrence was attacked by a group of white youths in south-east London A video of racist rants by the defendants in the Stephen Lawrence trial has been heard by the jury at the Old Bailey. The police surveillance
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Global Update: Public Health Experts Calls for a New Emphasis on Snakebite
Kathmandu :: Nepal | over 1 year ago
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Experts Seek New Emphasis on Quiet Killer Rod Patterson/Gallo Images via Getty Published: December 12, 2011 Snakebite isn't exactly a neglected disease, but since many victims die for lack of the right medicine, the World Health Organization
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Snakebite deaths underreported worldwide
Frankfurt :: Germany | over 1 year ago
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Fatal snakebites worldwide have been vastly underreported because many die before seeking or reaching medical care, researchers in Germany say. Ulrich Kuch of Biodiversity and Climate Research in Frankfurt, Germany, said the World Health Organization
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