"Tony Bailey" writes:

"Not the Karl Orff" wrote in message news:canwine-
I wager more Aussies die from spiders in..... 6 months than Canadians
from wolves in the past 20 years


For those interested in snake bite treatment -

http://www.rfds.org.au/monographs/snakebite.pdf

This paper seems to suggest that snake bite treatment is so advanced in
Australia, that, if you must be bitten - Australia, in the vicinity of a
hospital, is probably the safest place to have it happen -

Because treatment with antivenene is now the norm, and is highly effective.
Even the exceedingly neurotoxic venom secreted by sea snakes can be
treated with the antinvenene for the land-based tiger snake.
Same deal with funnelweb bites.

Not many deaths from sea wasps these days, either. Most jellyfish stings
can be neutralised with vinegar, which is why you see large plastic bottles
of the stuff on beaches along the east coast.

But there's always sal****er crocodiles. Crocodylus porosus still gets a few
tourists every year.

Mike McBain
Melbourne, Australia