Report Brave Woman Brings Dead Cobra to Hospital After Venomous Bite

[snoop1130]

Picture courtesy of KhaoSod

 

In an extraordinary incident in eastern Thailand, a woman shocked hospital staff by arriving with the 3-metre-long king cobra that had bitten her. Supin Wanphen was foraging for mushrooms in Sa Kaeo's Watthana Nakhon district on April 19 when the snake bit her, leaving a severe wound on her left leg.

 

A Facebook post celebrating Supin's bravery described her astonishing response to the attack. Despite the danger, she managed to kill the cobra with her own hands and bring it along when seeking medical help. This remarkable display of courage quickly became a viral sensation online.

 

 

 

Supin's bravery didn't just stop at subduing the deadly serpent; she sought medical attention promptly, which proved crucial. Her quick thinking and decisive actions meant she was able to receive the necessary treatment and is now safely out of ICU.

 

The incident highlights not only the potential dangers of encountering wildlife but also the resilience of those living in regions where such encounters are more common. Supin's story serves as a reminder of the unpredictable nature of the wild and the importance of immediate medical attention in cases of venomous bites.

 

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Thaiger 2025-04-23

 

 

 

[Will B Good]

Seen a couple in the rice fields, but even scarier are the dozens of tracks of the Pythons going from lake to lake.....never seen one though.

[FlorC]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

she managed to kill the cobra with her own hands

How do you kill such a bigger one by hand ?

 

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Seen a couple in the rice fields, but even scarier are the dozens of tracks of the Pythons going from lake to lake.....never seen one though.

Best to keep it that way... however it's usually the one you don't see that gets you.

[Watawattana]

Wow, so brave.  If she has a husband/boyfriend he better look out!  Any naughty naughty might lead to the trouser python getting the same fate!

[black tabby12345]

Looks like she brought the snake that bit her to get the correct serum.

 

[black tabby12345]

6 minutes ago, FlorC said:

How do you kill such a bigger one by hand ?

 

 

When farmers work in the field, they would carry various cutlery.

E.G. machete or sickle.

With machete, must be pretty easy to put down the snake.

Or she might stomp it with a big rock in the head.

[Thingamabob]

Too many people taking over land historically inhabited by wild life. 

[renaissanc]

We have 26 cats. It is unwise for snakes or a mouse to enter Catdom with so many cats roaming around during the day. Sometimes, a cat brings back a small cobra from the neighbour's land, usually dead by now, and then presents it to my wife and/or me. "Look! Aren't I clever!" The cats do this when they find an outdoor lizard or other creature. Cockroaches are taken care of at night by Cyril the Toad who lives in a pipe in the kitchen. The pipe is used to let washing machine water flow into the back garden. The cats let Cyril wander around the kitchen and don't bother him. Snakes are rare in Catdom. Maybe once a year, a large and long cobra finds its way into the garden, totally ignoring the presence of the 26 cats. I'll kill it with a digging tool to protect the cats and thereby restore peace in Catdom. The monitor lizard next door gets it as a snack afterwards. 

[WDSmart]

So, who was more deadly, the Thai woman or the snake? 😞 

[KannikaP]

44 minutes ago, black tabby12345 said:

Looks like she brought the snake that bit her to get the correct serum.

 

Yes. Any other explanation? Dinner for the nurses?  555

[KannikaP]

15 minutes ago, renaissanc said:

We have 26 cats. It is unwise for snakes or a mouse to enter Catdom with so many cats roaming around during the day. Sometimes, a cat brings back a small cobra from the neighbour's land, usually dead by now, and then presents it to my wife and/or me. "Look! Aren't I clever!" The cats do this when they find an outdoor lizard or other creature. Cockroaches are taken care of at night by Cyril the Toad who lives in a pipe in the kitchen. The pipe is used to let washing machine water flow into the back garden. The cats let Cyril wander around the kitchen and don't bother him. Snakes are rare in Catdom. Maybe once a year, a large and long cobra finds its way into the garden, totally ignoring the presence of the 26 cats. I'll kill it with a digging tool to protect the cats and thereby restore peace in Catdom. The monitor lizard next door gets it as a snack afterwards. 

Why 26 cats please?

[G Rex]

18 minutes ago, renaissanc said:

We have 26 cats. It is unwise for snakes or a mouse to enter Catdom with so many cats roaming around during the day. Sometimes, a cat brings back a small cobra from the neighbour's land, usually dead by now, and then presents it to my wife and/or me. "Look! Aren't I clever!" The cats do this when they find an outdoor lizard or other creature. Cockroaches are taken care of at night by Cyril the Toad who lives in a pipe in the kitchen. The pipe is used to let washing machine water flow into the back garden. The cats let Cyril wander around the kitchen and don't bother him. Snakes are rare in Catdom. Maybe once a year, a large and long cobra finds its way into the garden, totally ignoring the presence of the 26 cats. I'll kill it with a digging tool to protect the cats and thereby restore peace in Catdom. The monitor lizard next door gets it as a snack afterwards. 

 

Wow!  With so many cats, maybe you could spare a few to feed the poor king Cobra, rather than decapitating him?

The large cobras generally prey on other snakes - so do not pose much threat to you or your cats - unless you or they deliberately annoy or attack the snake.

[PETERTHEEATER]

52 minutes ago, black tabby12345 said:

Looks like she brought the snake that bit her to get the correct serum.

 

 

52 minutes ago, black tabby12345 said:

Looks like she brought the snake that bit her to get the correct serum.

 

Decades ago, in Thailand, this was the official advice and still holds true. Most districts stock anti-venoms and positively identifying the snake species ensures the correct treatment promptly.

[ujayujay]

19 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Seen a couple in the rice fields, but even scarier are the dozens of tracks of the Pythons going from lake to lake.....never seen one though.

Yeah....this poisonous Killer Pythons

[black tabby12345]

35 minutes ago, renaissanc said:

We have 26 cats. It is unwise for snakes or a mouse to enter Catdom with so many cats roaming around during the day. Sometimes, a cat brings back a small cobra from the neighbour's land, usually dead by now, and then presents it to my wife and/or me. "Look! Aren't I clever!" The cats do this when they find an outdoor lizard or other creature. Cockroaches are taken care of at night by Cyril the Toad who lives in a pipe in the kitchen. The pipe is used to let washing machine water flow into the back garden. The cats let Cyril wander around the kitchen and don't bother him. Snakes are rare in Catdom. Maybe once a year, a large and long cobra finds its way into the garden, totally ignoring the presence of the 26 cats. I'll kill it with a digging tool to protect the cats and thereby restore peace in Catdom. The monitor lizard next door gets it as a snack afterwards. 

 

Looks like you got a miniature food chain in your backyard.

And you are sitting at the top.

Keep going.

[stupidfarang]

1 hour ago, black tabby12345 said:

 

When farmers work in the field, they would carry various cutlery.

E.G. machete or sickle.

With machete, must be pretty easy to put down the snake.

Or she might stomp it with a big rock in the head.

When faced with a snake especially a viper or cobra, I can assure you they are fast and not that easy to kill from my experience and I would not be using a short handle machete or sickle.

[cowellandrew]

20 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Seen a couple in the rice fields, but even scarier are the dozens of tracks of the Pythons going from lake to lake.....never seen one though.

I've had 2 in my house, 

I was last seen fleeing on my crotch rocket other names honda!

😂😂😂🙈🚀

[black tabby12345]

1 minute ago, stupidfarang said:

When faced with a snake especially a viper or cobra, I can assure you they are fast and not that easy to kill from my experience and I would not be using a short handle machete or sickle.

 

Hi, thank you for sharing your experience.

How did you counter that threat?

Did you run?

Or fought and finished it off with something else?

[norsurin]

When i lived in surin i saw many king cobras.One time in the middle of day one dog start barking just behind our house.I went back and saw he barks at 2 big king cobras.I called for my exwife brother and he came.He managed to kill both fast.He start digging where the cobras was and he found 35 cobra eggs.He put gasoline on the eggs and burned it all.That night we ate snakesoup for dinner.

[pacovl46]

There was absolutely no need to kill the snake. Everyone and their dog knows what a king cobra looks like. Also, kings cobras usually make a major fuss when you get near them, which tells me that she might have been trying to kill the snake for food and in the process got bit. 

[Red Forever]

1 hour ago, renaissanc said:

We have 26 cats. It is unwise for snakes or a mouse to enter Catdom with so many cats roaming around during the day. Sometimes, a cat brings back a small cobra from the neighbour's land, usually dead by now, and then presents it to my wife and/or me. "Look! Aren't I clever!" The cats do this when they find an outdoor lizard or other creature. Cockroaches are taken care of at night by Cyril the Toad who lives in a pipe in the kitchen. The pipe is used to let washing machine water flow into the back garden. The cats let Cyril wander around the kitchen and don't bother him. Snakes are rare in Catdom. Maybe once a year, a large and long cobra finds its way into the garden, totally ignoring the presence of the 26 cats. I'll kill it with a digging tool to protect the cats and thereby restore peace in Catdom. The monitor lizard next door gets it as a snack afterwards. 

 

1 hour ago, renaissanc said:

We have 26 cats. It is unwise for snakes or a mouse to enter Catdom with so many cats roaming around during the day. Sometimes, a cat brings back a small cobra from the neighbour's land, usually dead by now, and then presents it to my wife and/or me. "Look! Aren't I clever!" The cats do this when they find an outdoor lizard or other creature. Cockroaches are taken care of at night by Cyril the Toad who lives in a pipe in the kitchen. The pipe is used to let washing machine water flow into the back garden. The cats let Cyril wander around the kitchen and don't bother him. Snakes are rare in Catdom. Maybe once a year, a large and long cobra finds its way into the garden, totally ignoring the presence of the 26 cats. I'll kill it with a digging tool to protect the cats and thereby restore peace in Catdom. The monitor lizard next door gets it as a snack afterwards. 

26 cats?

Bet your property smells like a rose garden.

[FlorC]

1 hour ago, black tabby12345 said:

 

When farmers work in the field, they would carry various cutlery.

E.G. machete or sickle.

With machete, must be pretty easy to put down the snake.

Or she might stomp it with a big rock in the head.

Cobra spit venom in the eyes > blind.

 

I had trouble the other day killing a 80 cm long but only 1,5 cm thick snake with a shovel.

It kept raizing its head , would not die.

This one in the OP , is a big MF nd the woman was already bitten.

[Will B Good]

3 hours ago, ujayujay said:

Yeah....this poisonous Killer Pythons

?

[kidneyw]

Tough Thai lady. Smart also, knowing the correct anti venom would be required.

[Luuk Chaai]

16 hours ago, FlorC said:

How do you kill such a bigger one by hand ?

 

 

Luckily she just watched this video

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9KIdG7zSoPwzlgMDoQD-96vjCaF5lTMdfya13fyUhTjVifvEalK7a4-KAA-dx3IBh1Sk&usqp=CAU

[zepplin]

On 4/23/2025 at 6:40 PM, Will B Good said:

Seen a couple in the rice fields, but even scarier are the dozens of tracks of the Pythons going from lake to lake.....never seen one though.

 

On 4/23/2025 at 6:40 PM, Will B Good said:

Seen a couple in the rice fields, but even scarier are the dozens of tracks of the Pythons going from lake to lake.....never seen one though.

Pythons are beautiful and harmless, unless you are a small animal, had a 5 m one cross the road next to our house on Samui, amazing snake!

[Ben Zioner]

17 hours ago, WDSmart said:

So, who was more deadly, the Thai woman or the snake? 😞 

Actually, did she bring the snake treatment?

[WDSmart]

8 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

On 4/24/2025 at 2:13 PM, WDSmart said:

So, who was more deadly, the Thai woman or the snake? 😞 

Actually, did she bring the snake treatment?

I'm not sure what you're asking above. Did you mean "...bring the snake in FOR treatment"? Or did you mean "...did she bring the snake in to assist in her own treatment?" Either way, she killed the snake, so she was the more deadly of the two. 

[Kinok Farang]

On 4/24/2025 at 8:19 AM, KannikaP said:

Why 26 cats please?

 

On 4/24/2025 at 8:19 AM, KannikaP said:

Why 26 cats please?

I was going to say he was a cataholic but then religion has nothing to do with the case.