Venom

24 May 2010 - A 16 years old Hong Kong boy was bitten by his pet snake, but he was unaware that the animal is the extremely venomous short-tailed mamushi, whose venom can kill a person within an hour. Instead of going to the hospital immediately, the teen puts some ointment on the wound. After 12 hours, the wound is badly swollen and the boy's mother calls for an ambulance to send him to hospital. He survives only because his snake is young, and therefore less snake. The story does not say if the snake survived this encounter, but something tells me it may have ended in the soup.