A boy, barely one-year-and-five-months-old, has reportedly bitten a poisonous snake to death in southern Brazil.
According to media reports, the child miraculously survived the incident which took place on Sunday, November 1.
IOL News, the boy was playing outside Nohis home in Mostardas, a city in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, when he encountered the snake.
Jaine Ferreira, the boy’s mother told local radio Gaucha that she found him with a wriggling snake in his mouth when she went to check on him.
Apparently, the boy had clamped the snake down, preventing it from being able to bite back.
Ferreira said the boy was immediately taken to the hospital, where doctors confirmed he had no injuries or symptoms of being poisoned.
Experts identified the snake as a Bothrops jararaca, which is an endemic pit viper in South America.
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