{"id":41720,"date":"2025-12-05T06:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/man-bitten-by-snake-canelands-kzn\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:09:04","slug":"man-bitten-by-snake-canelands-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/man-bitten-by-snake-canelands-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Bitten By Snake: Canelands &#8211; KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thirty-three (33) year old male was admitted to the Osindisweni Government Hospital (OGH) after being bitten by a snake.  <\/p>\n<p>At approximately 12:09 on Thursday, an employee at a quarry in Canelands, KZN expedited his colleague to the Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Headquarters with a dead snake (pictures) in a plastic packet.  <\/p>\n<p>Paramedics stabilised and immediately transported the patient to the local hospital for treatment of a snake bite to his right hand.  His colleague informed Officers that the man was bitten while working at the quarry. The snake was immediately killed &amp; transported along with the patient for identification purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The snake was identified as a Rhombic Night Adder, whose venom is cytotoxic and primarily affects local tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Pedestrian Safety from Snakes and Snake Bites<\/p>\n<p>Man Bitten By Snake: Canelands &#8211; KZNhttps:\/\/t.co\/Fe6zSkAMxq#ArriveAlive #Snakes #SnakeBites pic.twitter.com\/QsKq1RkjMl<br \/>\n&mdash; Arrive Alive (@_ArriveAlive) December 4,&#8230;<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75541&#038;page=man-bitten-by-snake-canelands-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thirty-three (33) year old male was admitted to the Osindisweni Government Hospital (OGH) after being bitten by a snake. At approximately 12:09 on Thursday, an employee at a quarry in Canelands, KZN expedited his colleague to the Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) Headquarters with a dead snake (pictures) in a plastic packet. Paramedics stabilised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/593426130_1290677276419362_5062516203869822430_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-41720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/593426130_1290677276419362_5062516203869822430_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}