It's a snake! What do you do?

The death of a North Queensland man has prompted warnings about an earlier-than-usual snake season. The man in his 60s was bitten when he tried to remove a suspected brown snake that had coiled around a friend's ankle in Mackay. SBS's Janice Petersen talks to Dr Timothy Jackson from Melbourne University's Australian Venom Research Unit.

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