Venomous Snakes
Venomous Thailand snakes — front-fanged elapids, vipers and rear-fanged colubrids capable of harm. Photos, species notes and bite information.
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Snakebite Treatment Failures — Why Some Bites Get Mishandled in Thai Hospitals
Species misidentification. A patient arrives with no photograph; the clinician guesses based on bite-site appearance and presenting symptoms; the guess…
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How to Identify Deadly Kraits in Thailand — Banded, Malayan, Red-Headed
Thailand has three krait species, and all of them are dangerously venomous. Kraits are responsible for a quietly disproportionate share…
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Bitten by a Venomous Snake in Thailand? — What Happens, Hour by Hour
If you have just been bitten by a venomous snake in Thailand, you have one of the better outcomes available…
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What Snake Kills You the Fastest? — The King Cobra Argument
Some snakes kill slowly. The Many-Banded Krait (Bungarus multicinctus) bite can take 30 hours to produce respiratory failure even untreated.…
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Many-Spotted Cat Snake (Boiga multomaculata) — Mildly Venomous, Strikingly Patterned
The Many-Spotted Cat Snake is one of those quiet small-to-medium snakes that lives almost everywhere in Thailand without anyone noticing.…
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