Woman bitten by snake breastfeeds child, both die

Meerut | Friday | 25th May, 2018

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Parveen breastfed the child after around two hours of being bitten by the reptile. Muzaffarnagar: A 25-year-old woman who was bitten by a snake and unknowingly breastfed poisoned milk to her two-year-old daughter has died along with the child at Mandla village in Muzaffarnagar district. A few hours later, the woman too collapsed and was declared brought dead by doctors.Salman Ahmed, the deceased woman’s brother-in-law, said, “Parveen was preparing food when the snake bit her. The minor soon fell ill and was rushed to a hospital where she succumbed to the poison. When she did not show any symptom of snake bite for more than two hours we had assumed that the reptile was of a non-venomous variety..