Woman walks into emergency room holding a snake that bit her..
She held the slithering animal around her wrist and calmly went to the ER so the medics could identify it, according to a hospital in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province.
Huang Shengqiang, the ER doctor who treated the woman, said the snake was a non-venomous red-banded snake.
Dr Huang said there was no swelling around the patient’s wound, so he gave her simple treatment.
Viral pictures taken by the medics show the patient filling out a registration form while grabbing the snake with her thumb and fingers.
'(She) is a
femme fatale,' gushed ER nurse Ma Nina at Jinhua's Pujiang Hospital as
she recalled the incident which occurred during the wee hours on
Sunday.
The hospital said in a statement
that the patient is around 20 years old. She told the doctor that she
was searching for her dropped phone in the shrubs while being bitten by
the snake, which then crawled onto her palm. The woman then caught the
snake.
Pujiang Hospital said its doctors had
treated many patients suffering from snake bites this summer, but this
was the first time that they had seen someone coming into the ER with a
live snake.
Speaking to Pear video, the woman, identified by her surname Chen, said she was not afraid of snakes; on the contrary, she found snakes 'cute'.
Ms
Chen said her father and grandfather taught her how to catch snakes
when she was little, and she often followed them into the mountains to
hunt for them.
The hospital has
advised the public not to go to the wild or near shrubs at early morning
or evening in summer to avoid being bitten by snakes.
Last
month, a woman in north-west China died after being bitten by a
venomous snake. It was believed that she had bought the reptile online
in hope of making a traditional medicinal wine.
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