Moscow Zoo employee dies while feeding African garter snake

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Moscow Zoo employee dies after feeding the poisonous snake

In the Moscow Zoo, a poisonous snake bit an employee while fed.

The thirty -five -year -old man named only as Sergey Y. was preparing to feed a African snake. He had already opened the terrarium when the reptile threw himself with tears and bit him with his finger. Another employee tried to help man, but Sergey quickly developed a severe allergic reaction and entered anaphylactic shock, reports Baza Telegram Channel.

An ambulance came quickly. Althegh’s paramedics tried to save him, Sergey had already stopped breathing. Despite his efforts and his route to the hospital, his heart stopped in the emergency vehicle and could not be revived.

There is no specific antivenene for an African snake bite. However, the snake poison is not highly toxic, and Sergey could have survived if it were not for the acute allergic reaction.

Telegram Channel 112 reported that Sergey worked as a coach.

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He Moscow Then or Moskovsky Zoopark (Russian: Московски sight ззelle) is a zoo of 21.5 hectares (53 acres), the largest in Russia. The Moscow Zoo was founded in 1864 by Professor-Biologists, KF Rulje, SA Usev and AP Bogdanov, from the Moscow State University. In 1919, the zoo was nationalized. In 1922, the property was transferred to the Moscow government and has remained under its control since then. The zoo had an area of ​​10 hectares (25 acres) when it opened for the first time, with 286 animals. In 1926, the zoo expanded to adjacent lands, increasing the area to 18 hectares (44 acres).

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