Crikey - Croc hunter handler bitten by deadly snake

A snake handler at a zoo run by Steve Irwin of TV’s Crocodile Hunter nature programme was bitten by one of the world’s deadliest snakes today.

The 20-year-old man was bitten by a taipan on his right thumb while working at Irwin’s Australia Zoo in Beerwah, on Australia’s northeast coast, the Queensland state’s ambulance services said.