A 3-year-old girl in Kitui dies after eating snake

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Nmejua sahii mtu hafai kula.

Si Shaina and many cultures eat snakes? I have even seen a video of our kdf bro’s roasting and eating a huge snake pale tiktok. Probably mtoto alimeza the small bones

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The grandmother was careless with disposing it off–what does a 3 yr old know? Even the dry skeleton of a snake is dangerous if you step on it and it pierces the skin. Once a snake is killed and burnt whatever remains should be buried or dumped into some deep pit.
FYI, people who eat snakes must remove the venom first. Bloody reptile.

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Uwongo. People in Africa and Asia eat snakes yet they have never died of snake poisoning. It can only be called poisonous if you can die from biting it and venomous if you die from it’s bite.

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Alikula kichwa banae! Shosho mpumbavu saidi

Some snake species are highly venomous and should not be eaten eg black mamba and puff adder. Some are neither venomous nor poisonous eg python

Kuna venomous na non venomous snakes and most snakes in Kenya are non venomous

True, but you are taking a serious risk assuming a snake in a hot place like Kitui isn’t venomous

Angekula mwili ehhh?
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Sina mengi

Mtoi alisema apikiwe supu ya kichwa

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That is not true. Snake venom is made from proteins that are easily digestible. So venom only hurts a body if it goes into bloodstream or muscles. But if you eat it, it gets digests in the stomach, just like any protein eg beans.

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Venom is made of protein and is easily digested. It’s the reason a snake does not die when it bites you and some of the venom stays in its mouth and gets swallowed.

si nyoka ilimuua, it was probably the ashes from the wood used to burn the snake. Some trees are very posionous

Bottomline is that the girl is dead. What killed her?

Report is very sketchy. But even when a green mamba bites you, you die over several hours /days. You don’t just drop dead.

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Go swallow a cobra then

would a 3 years old be that wise to know? that is still a baby buana