What snake causes the most deaths in the world?

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Doesn't anyone know the top few snakes that cause the most deaths? Or at least the australian snake that causes the most deaths?

Answer 1

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I'm afraid no one has answered you correctly so far. That is because it's a hard question to answer.
Mambas and Kraits are rarely involved with human beings. The Gaboon Viper of South America has the longest fangs of all snakes, and there are many bad Rattlesnakes, and the Sea Snakes have a powerful venom, and the King Brown of Australia is bad news, but these reptiles do NOT usually kill human beings, because either their venom is not that strong or they just don't run across people that often. To my knowledge, the snake responsible for the most human deaths every year is the King Cobra of India. The reason for this, is that, first of all, it has Neurotoxic venom, which attacks the nerves, and second of all, most of the huge population of India go around bare footed. This combination of things create many deadly encounters with this magnificent snake. The King Cobra is reputed to also be the most intelligent of all snakes. They learn quickly and this makes them very dangerous too. In the Reptile House of the zoo I used to work at, I took care of the biggest King Cobra in captivity. Originally, he had been privately owned, and had bitten his owner, who never made it to the hospital and died in 9 minutes.

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Answer 2

king brown or something. google it jackass

Answer 3

I think it's the Cobra and Rattle snakes

Answer 4

the ones that live on planes ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Answer 5

The one eyed snakes!

Answer 6

There is a small snike in Africa that kills a lot of people, I think it might be called a "krait"

Answer 7

hook-naosed seasnake is the most poisonous while king cobra is the deadliest

Answer 8

the snake that is the deadliest is the black mamba (snakes are venomous not poisenous) if biten and not treated results are fatal it shuts down the lungs and heart. however they are related to kobras , also they have a near 100% fatality rate which means nearly everyone bitten is killed

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamba

Answer 9

The snake which causes the most human deaths annually is the Indian cobra. It often lives in close proximity to people, and in rural areas there is no access to anti-venom. This snake is neither the most venomous (that's the fierce snake, or inland taipan, of Australia), nor the biggest venomous snake (that's the king cobra), but it IS the snake that most often bites people and kills them.