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by venominme on April 24, 2010
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Sticking with the first post and “Of these six”, which were Black Mamba, King Cobra, Bushmaster, Coastal Taipan, Eastern Diamondback, and Gaboon Viper, I have a new way of deciding which is the world’s deadliest snake. Let’s say we consider a normal bite on the foot from each. I would put it like this. If you had time to get to a hospital and they could amputate your foot within an hour of the bite, the Black Mamba bite will probably still kill you. Of these snakes, the Black Mamba’s venom is most likely to have quickly spread to the point that even amputating the foot would not remove enough of the venom to save you. Death is sometimes not averted even when antivenom is available if it is not administered quickly enough to neutralize the very fast acting venom.
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by pictigaster1 on April 24, 2010
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The top 10 are in aussie land for sure.It has absolutely no bareing on the snakes that cause the most deaths.If you want the most toxic it is not the most dangerous or deadly by fatality.
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by puffadder7 on April 24, 2010
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this is such a non specific question. there are way to many culprits this list would go on and on, now if it was said what are the most dangerous snakes in africa or australia, and going by the most dangerous snakes on continents would be much easier to list the species.
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by BGF on April 24, 2010
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Actually, it is a total myth that the top 10 based upon simple toxicity are found in Australia. This is a misunderstanding of a 1979 paper by Struan Sutherland where he tested a reasonable range of Australian elapids and included for comparison purposes whatever non-Australian venoms he happened to have in the freezer at the time. But somehow that has been taken as a ranking system. Compiling together a proper list shows this nicely http://www.venomdoc.com/LD50/LD50men.html particularly when you look at the subcutaneous results which are more comprehensive than other methods http://www.venomdoc.com/LD50/ld50sc.html
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by elapidkeeper on May 3, 2010
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I don't think any African hospital's protocol is to amputate limbs bitten by D. polylepis though...that's kind of extreme. We all know the toxicity based on LD 50 in rodents. What you also have to take into account is venom delivered(qty,spec. size,etc.), delivery route(sq,im,iv),# of bites(D. polylepis can deliver more than one quickly),size of victim,and venom sensitivity of individual. You are right that everyone will not survive the enevenomation of D. polylepis even with antivenom, but then there are the cases of those who will survive almost a day on a ventilator while awaiting antivenom treatement...
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by venominme on May 3, 2010
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I didn’t mean to imply amputation was a snake bite remedy! Just a dramatic way of suggesting the potency and rapid onset of black mamba envenomation probably makes it the most dangerous of the ones listed to choose from in my opinion. Not that death in forty minutes is that much different from a death in seventy, which makes picking the world’s deadliest subjective. I picked the mamba.
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