Taipan snake bite leaves elderly Australian man fighting for his life
by Australian Associated Press from on (#260D1)
Quick-thinking paramedic heard about patient's rapid decline and raced a dose of anti-venom to the house in Cairns
An elderly Cairns man is fighting for life after being bitten on the foot by a large taipan that slithered into his lounge room.
The man, who is aged in his 70s, went into cardiac arrest after the highly venomous snake bit him at his Yorkeys Knob home about 8pm on Tuesday.
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