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Four hospitalized in Nahariya with serious snake bite injuries
By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel, snake bites, hospital

Four people, including a toddler and teenager, were hospitalized in serious condition in Nahariya on Thursday after being bitten by snakes in separate locations in the north.

A 3-year-old boy from Nahariya was listed in very serious condition, and the 14-year-old from Sakhnin was brought to the intensive care unit with serious injuries.

A soldier and a 34-year-old woman suffered light injuries from snake bites in separate incidents.
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This year has seen a record number of snake bites; Magen David Adom emergency medical service have said that 71 people were bitten by snakes during the first half of June.

A resident from the Golan Heights was bitten by a viper at the end of June and hospitalized in serious condition.

During the same month there were several other cases of snake bites throughout Israel. A migrant worker was moderately injured when he was bitten by a snake in a moshav north of Tel Aviv. On the same day, a 9-month-old baby was rushed to Kfar Sava's Meir Hospital with bite injuries.

Also in June, man died when a snake bit his face in the yard of his home in the Western Galilee. Medics said that Gil Rosokhovchky, 47, was bitten while tending a pigeon coop that he kept outside his Shavei Zion home. The viper was in a tree next to the coop and, feeling threatened, bit Rosokhovchky's face. He died shortly afterwards.

Dr. Aryeh Eisenman, who treated Rosokhovchky at Nahariya Hospital, said the bite was near the jugular, and the poison was thus swiftly transported to the heart and brain.

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