The 36-year-old amateur herpetologist is also up in arms over the refusal by his doctors to administer an anti-venom concoction he had got from a pal up north.
"If they would have given it to me at the time," our hero grumbled to Province reporter Jack Keating, "I wouldn't be sitting here with a black finger and no flesh on it . . . my arm has basically been mutilated."
The problem is that by Hansen's own admission Eve's bite was "dry" -- that is, no actual venom was released, just nasty toxins mingled with the snake's saliva.
According to staff at the B.C. Poison Control Centre, injecting him with his friend's anti-venom supply would have been medically futile.

A couple of things jump out at me on this....

First the guy made his own bed by keeping the hot animal and has nobody but himself to blame for the bite. I am sure that his comments can be twisted out of context here to satisfy the obvious opinion of this articles author. But anybody keeping hots needs to do his homework ahead of time and have a "bite protocol" that includes contact info for antivenin and a preferred place and method of treatment.

Second there is absolutely no way it was a "dry bite" if the flesh fell off his finger, now it could have been a mild envenomation... but to paint a picture that a reptile can cause such damage without injecting any venom is as irresponsible as it is stupid.

Lance
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