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The venomous bite left the boy with severe facial paralysis which doctors feared could be permanent - but following months of rehabilitation, most of the paralysis has been reversed.
22 May 2021 - 10:42 A Mozambican spitting cobra bit a young Dutch visitor to SA under the right eye while he was asleep. Image: 123rf/Willem Frost
A boy who was bitten on the face by a spitting cobra was resuscitated in a rural hospital and saved by an antidote.
The four-year-old Dutch boy s ordeal, during a safari holiday to SA with his parents, has been revealed by the reconstructive surgeons who treated him when he returned home.
Willem Rinkel, from Utrecht University Medical Centre, said the boy s case was a warning that the increasing pre-pandemic popularity of safaris in Southern Africa “may confront more tourists with the effects of snake bites”.