{"id":326725,"date":"2026-04-30T06:19:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=326725"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:49:35","slug":"tourist-dies-after-being-bitten-at-snake-charming-show-on-egypt-vacation-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/tourist-dies-after-being-bitten-at-snake-charming-show-on-egypt-vacation-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist dies after being bitten at snake charming show on Egypt vacation &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A German tourist has died after being bitten by a snake that slithered up his pants while watching a show in Egypt with two other members of his family, German police confirmed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polizei.bayern.de\/aktuelles\/pressemitteilungen\/101950\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old 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snakes, \u201cpresumably cobras,\u201d police said, \u201ca few of which were placed across the necks of audience members,\u201d authorities added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox because it happens so you will not miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Throughout the snake charmer\u2019s performance, certainly one of the snakes crawled into the person\u2019s pants and bit him on the leg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe subsequently exhibited clear symptoms of poisoning and required resuscitation,\u201d the police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to a neighborhood hospital, where he later died, it continued.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the circumstances of the death is being conducted by the Memmingen Criminal Police Inspectorate under the direction of the Memmingen Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The outcomes of a toxicological examination are still pending.<\/p>\n<p>The person, who has not been named by police, was from the Unterallg\u00e4u region of Bavaria in southeastern Germany and was vacationing with two members of the family, police said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Trending<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/health-topics\/snakebite#tab=tab_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Health Organization<\/a>, available data indicates that 4.5-5.4 million persons are bitten by snakes annually. Of this, 1.8-2.7 million develop clinical illness, and 81,000 to 138,000 die from complications, it says.<\/p>\n<p>High-risk groups include rural agricultural employees, herders, fishers, hunters, working children, people living in poorly constructed houses and people with limited access to education and health care, the organization\u2019s website states.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In Canada, venomous snakes are rare, and bites are infrequent, with just one reported snakebite-related death in 2026, based on the net data platform <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/country-rankings\/snake-bite-deaths-by-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Population Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Based on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1080603218301121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ScienceDirect<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/about-cwf\/faq\/faqs\/venomous-snakes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Wildlife Federation<\/a>, there are three endemic venomous snake species in Canada: the Western Rattlesnake, present in British Columbia\u2019s Thompson Okanagan region; the Prairie Rattlesnake, found only in southwestern Saskatchewan and southern Alberta; and the Eastern Massasauga, found only in Ontario on the eastern shore of Georgian Bay, the northern Bruce Peninsula, a small area within the Niagara Peninsula and within the Windsor region.<\/p>\n<p>In 2026 to this point, India has the very best variety of snakebite-related deaths, reporting 51,100 fatalities, followed by Pakistan, Nigeria and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&#038;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German tourist has died after being bitten by a snake that slithered up his pants while watching a show in Egypt with two other members of his family, German police confirmed in a statement on Monday. 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