Ontario woman nearly dies -- twice -- after snake bite in Thailand
(WorldNews Canada)

Shalabha Kalliath’s legs buckled as pain shot through her body during a walk on a beach in Thailand. When she looked down, a small snake dangled from her right big toe. She was able to slam it against a wall in Ko Phi Phi before collapsing during a vacation late last month. “I swore at it and I fell immediately,” said the Ontario woman, who came close to death twice — once in Thailand and then again after a flare-up in Canada — after the bite from a Malayan pit viper. “I felt horrible, I was nauseated and unable to move.” Someone else killed the snake that day. Its identification, by a Thai medic, would later help save the 26-year-old. After being...