>> Irma Bule astonishingly carried on singing for a further 45 minutes before she collapsed in front of fans.
>> The show must go on!
If the lady had sought treatment straight away instead of carrying on with the performance, she might still be with us. She must have been in considerable pain.
Cobra venom is certainly deadly although not the very deadliest snake venom (Russell's Viper is worse, and the South African puff adder is widely praised for its deadliness). I imagine there are ways of neutralizing the poison but perhaps I'm wrong.
Chopping the area around the bite with sharp knife and sucking the blood and venom out by mouth (not if your teeth are given to bleeding though) used to be recommended. Potassium permanganate could be rubbed in with beneficial effect I seem to remember.
Africans tend to run a mile when they see any sort of snake, better safe than sorry sort of thing.
Is a puff adder the same as a boomslang?
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