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‘Fight poison with poison’ almost kills snake bite victim

Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN

AN elderly woman resorted to a folk remedy of “fighting poison with poison” by applying spider venom on the snake bite wound of her granddaughter, which nearly took the girl’s life.

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