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A 17- year-old boy lost his life early this month due to a snake bite in Minyat Assa’id village, Beheria governorate in North Egypt.

A number of villagers in Minyat Assa’id have been attacked by snakes during this summer; eight were injured.

The snakes are spread in different parts of the village due to the presence of some deserted places such as drainage canals, according to some villagers.

The injured are sent to Al Mahmoudia Public Hospital, which is eight kilometres away from the village, as there is no health unit inside the village, causing a lack of first aids and antitoxins. Mahmoudia Public Hospital treats those who are exposed to snake bites with anti-snake venom serum and Anti hypertensives.


How residents of the village deal with snakes

The residents of the village hunted about 60 snakes during the last two weeks, in a very primitive way and have killed them, putting the villagers at risk. Some snake hunters from different villages came to offer help hunting the snakes.

People try to hunt snakes amidst crops and fields, especially in the hot summer, to prevent them reaching their houses, where most consist of one floor.


Residents of the village hunt the snakes/ CC ET

Snake-hunting professionals and experts said that hunting snakes requires professional ways to keep the hunters safe from snakes’ attacks.

Islam Maghraby, a snake hunter who came from another village to offer his help, said that the village needs excavators to remove the pile of sand that accumulated years ago and which is a habitat for snakes.


Hunting snakes: Eggs vs. Tuna

Beheira governor Nadia Abdo formed a specialized technical committee that includes representatives from Al Mahmoudia city local unit, directorates of veterinary medicine, health and agriculture, and professors from the Faculty of Agriculture at Damanhour University.

The committee ended up buying 5,000 eggs, and injected them with poisonous substances, the eggs were distributed inside terriers that may include the snakes and warned the residents about using these toxic eggs, Masrawy reported .

Unfortunately this was not successful, so they used snake traps. The traps consists of an empty deep barrel that has attracting odors for snakes such as toxic tuna, with a number of fixed empty pipes above the barrel.

Beheira governor Nadia Abdo said earlier this month in a telephone interview for “With Pen and Paper” TV program on Ten TV, that the snakes crisis should not worry citizens since snakes are in different parts of the country, and the one boy who lost his life in the village died because he stayed 12 hours at home before going to the hospital.

Abdo told Egypt Today that the governorate will work on cleaning and disinfecting canals and drains in Minyat Assa’id village, and removing agriculture waste, cooperating with veterinarians and professors from the Faculty of Agriculture at Damanhour University, to prevent the spread of harmful reptiles, through chemical or biological ways.

She added that they are coordinating with Alexandria Poison Center Faculty of Medicine at Alexandria University to receive emergent cases, and provide Al Mahmoudia Public Hospital with the needed anti-snake venom serums.


Source: https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/54 ... 8-injuries

Next they will be complaining that they’re overrun with rats

Who was the unlucky person off here whose dog barked to alert them that something was wrong. The culprit was a snake. No ground floor rentals for me.

crewmeal wrote:No ground floor rentals for me.

They can climb up to higher floors, dont know how, but they do.

You can buy an A4 piece of paper from the Sheik that stop snakes, scorpions etc. from entering ones apartment, all you have to do is place it on the wall near the entrance.

Apparently if you see a scarab beetle walking in your home then they might be scorpions around, I think the scarab beetle checks the place out, makes sure there is no notes from the Sheik and then he must go tell the scorpions that it is safe to enter the property, that's somewhere along the lines of what I was told

Mind you the other one was if a snake sees you, then you must kill it, else it will follow you for life

Don't you just love their logic, never mind they will soon be in the 19th century

The stupidity of the villagers - and perhaps the authorities - defies belief.

Snakes are by nature shy creatures which generally flee a soon as they detect a human approaching. They are only dangerous if cornered or you tred on one accidentally. They don't go out of their way to attack people.

Having a snake hunt is an ideal way of exposing yourself to danger and if anyone is bitten, it serves them right.

You can buy an A4 piece of paper from the Sheik that stop snakes, scorpions etc. from entering ones apartment, all you have to do is place it on the wall near the entrance.

I haven't heard that one before! I think a strong broom is all thats required to sweep them out. This happens in South Africa, but there they have homes with wooden floors so they can't wriggle about. The servants just sweep them out.

When I had a flat in Jordan my feral cat friends who lived outside quickly dealt with lizards scorpions spiders. One even played around with a snake.

Poor construction is he main problem, they need to install threasholds at the bottom of doors. In the words of London Underground, "Mind the Gap"

Major Thom wrote:Poor construction is he main problem, they need to install threasholds at the bottom of doors.

OH look there is a window open

And I can raise at least 1/3 of my body length off the ground

Horus wrote:And I can raise at least 1/3 of my body length off the ground

WOW!! That's some erection. I think all living here have fell victim to the Egyptian snake one time or another.

Dusak wrote:

Horus wrote:And I can raise at least 1/3 of my body length off the ground

WOW!! That's some erection. I think all living here have fell victim to the Egyptian snake one time or another.

No doubt that you are referring to the one eyed Egyptian Trouser Snake