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27 Snake Bite Wound Stock Photos, High-Res Pictures, and Images - Getty Images

27 Snake Bite Wound Stock Photos, High-Res Pictures, and Images - Getty Images

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Plastic snake head is displayed while Alexander Puerta , director of the Vivarium Foundation, explains to attendees of a discussion about snake bites and the procedures to try to differentiate between poisonous and non-poisonous snakes in the municipal park Casupo in Valencia, Carabobo State, Venezuela, on July 27, 2023. A girl lost her leg after a snakebite in Venezuela. She had received the antivenom, but the family decided to inject her with deer urine, and amputation was inevitable. Such concoctions, as well as other "home remedies" such as spraying petrol on the area or suctioning the wound, which can aggravate the situation, are indicative of the general lack of knowledge about how to deal with these animals in the midst of a chronic crisis in the health system. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty