Where's the antivenom?

Finneen

The hospitals don't stock it here and I doubt anyone else has it? Are there poisonous snakes anywhere in Ireland (kept as pets or in a zoo) and what happens if someone gets bitten?

aidoh

I know of a few people who keep venomous snakes as pets, yeah.
I don't know if anti-venoms are kept here but I'd imagine if you were bitten you'd be given something of a similar chemical recipe to an anti-venom to keep you safe until the hospital gets its hands on a 'real' cure.

EDIT: I literally just made all that up apart from the first sentence, haha. Hope you haven't been bitten.

Mickeroo

Don't they remove the poison glands from pet snakes and zoo snakes?

aidoh

Yeah but there are people who breed them here and keep them as pets.
Don't know if amateur herpers would remove the venom glands themselves.

Adam Khor

Mickeroo wrote: »

Don't they remove the poison glands from pet snakes and zoo snakes?

I worked at a zoo and they certainly never removed the venom glands (its venom, not poison; venom has to be injected into the bloodstream to work, unlike poison). But then, it wasn´t in Ireland, so...