Antibodies found in Tim Friede’s blood have been shown to protect against fatal doses from a wide range of species in animal tests.

Current therapies have to match the specific species of venomous snake anyone has been bitten by.

But Mr Friede’s 18-year mission could be a significant step in finding a universal antivenom against all snakebites – which kill up to 140,000 people a year and leave three times as many needing amputations or facing permanent disability.

In total, Mr Friede has endured more than 200 bites and more than 700 injections of venom he prepared from some of the world’s deadliest snakes, including multiple species of mambas, cobras, taipans and kraits.

He initially wanted to build up his immunity to protect himself when handling snakes, documenting his exploits on YouTube.

But the former truck mechanic said that he had “completely screwed up” early on when two cobra bites in quick succession left him in a coma.

“I didn’t want to die. I didn’t want to lose a finger. I didn’t want to miss work,” he told the BBC.

Mr Friede’s motivation was to develop better therapies for the rest of the world, explaining: “It just became a lifestyle and I just kept pushing and pushing and pushing as hard as I could push – for the people who are 8,000 miles away from me who die from snakebite”.

‘I’d love to get my hands on some of your blood’

Antivenom is currently made by injecting small doses of snake venom into animals, such as horses. Their immune system fights the venom by producing antibodies and these are harvested to be used as a therapy.

But venom and antivenom have to be closely matched because the toxins in a venomous bite vary from one species to another.

There is even wide variety within the same species – antivenom made from snakes in India is less effective against the same species in Sri Lanka.

A team of researchers began searching for a type of immune defence called broadly neutralising antibodies. Instead of targeting the part of a toxin that makes it unique, they target the parts that are common to entire classes of toxin.

That’s when Dr Jacob Glanville, chief executive of biotech company Centivax, came across Tim Friede.

“Immediately I was like ‘if anybody in the world has developed these broadly neutralising antibodies, it’s going to be him’ and so I reached out,” he said.

“The first call, I was like ‘this might be awkward, but I’d love to get my hands on some of your blood’.”

Mr Friede agreed and the work was given ethical approval because the study would only take blood, rather than giving him more venom.

The team is trying to refine the antibodies further and see if adding a fourth component could lead to total protection against elapid snake venom.

The other class of snake – the vipers – rely more on haemotoxins, which attack the blood, rather than neurotoxins. In total there are around a dozen broad classes of toxin in snake venom, which also includes cytotoxins that directly kill cells.

“I think in the next 10 or 15 years we’ll have something effective against each one of those toxin classes,” said Prof Peter Kwong, one of the researchers at Columbia University.

And the hunt continues inside Mr Friede’s blood samples.

“Tim’s antibodies are really quite extraordinary – he taught his immune system to get this very, very broad recognition,” said Prof Kwong.

The ultimate hope is to have either a single antivenom that can do everything, or one injection for elapids and one for vipers.

Prof Nick Casewell, who is the head of the centre for snakebite research and interventions at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, said the breadth of protection reported was “certainly novel” and provided “a strong piece of evidence” that this was a feasible approach.

“There is no doubt that this work moves the field forwards in an exciting direction.”

But he cautioned there was “much work to do” and that the antivenom still needed extensive testing before it could be used in people.

But for Mr Friede, reaching this stage “makes me feel good”.

“I’m doing something good for humanity and that was very important to me. I’m proud of it. It’s pretty cool.”

The pot containing a live snake and a headless vulture was found wrapped with a black cloth and red bandage and hidden in the heart of the market.

Also included were multiple GH¢5.00 notes (GH¢50.00 in total) and a bottle of Schnapp believed to have been used for libation.

The pot concoction was discovered in the early hours of Thursday when the traders went to the market for business.

They suspect it could be a ritual performed by the ‘sakawa’ people.

Others also apportioned blame to other market women, blaming the low market sales as the possible reason for the ritualistic sighting.

Meanwhile, the Kontihene of Sehwi Essam, Nana Yaw Berimah, said that was the second time such rituals have been found in the Essam market.

He disclosed that in the previous occasion, the chiefs performed rites to cleanse the market, adding that same will be done again.

The pot has been broken and it’s content burnt.

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Newsweek reports the toddler was in her backyard on August 10 when neighbours heard her screaming. They found the child with a 20-inch snake clenched between her teeth.

After a bite mark was found on the girl’s lip, she was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment and observation.

“Our neighbours have told me that the snake was in the hand of my child, she was playing with it and then it bit her,” said Mehmet Ercan, the toddler’s father. “Then she bit the snake back as a reaction.” Ercan was away at work when the incident occurred. 

The type of the snake is currently unknown, but the toddler’s father revealed she appears to be doing well.

There was some concern since 12 of the 45 species found in Turkey are considered venomous. 

Instead of opening the jars, the father purportedly left them untouched for a year so that they could have “enough medicinal properties.”

After the year-long marination, the man claims he decided to finally open the jars and administer the traditional Chinese medicine, only to find that all three of the venomous snakes “came back to life” before one of them bit him.

After being rushed to the hospital, he was treated immediately and reportedly survived the incident.

Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners believe that snake wine contains several health benefits and can even be a cure for rheumatism, arthritis and the flu.

The drink is often prepared by fitting a snake inside a jar of alcohol, usually rice wine, and leaving it there to marinate for months.

Some experts said that what happened to the father was not entirely strange since snakes can supposedly live inside a jar of alcohol for 12 months without dying, especially if the lid is left slightly open for air to enter.

However, herpetologist Wolfgang Wüster argued that what happened was “biologically impossible.”

“No snake can survive submerged in any kind of liquid in a bottle for more than an hour or so as a maximum,” Wüster told Newsweek.

“Snakes have no magical powers, they are made of flesh and bone like any other animal, and require food, water and oxygen to survive.”

Some snake species are able to enter a state of brumation, which is similar to hibernation for reptiles, when certain conditions are met, such as very low temperatures.

During brumation, they require less oxygen and their metabolism slows.

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Her death was announced on social media by one of her colleagues, to mourn her passing. She also preached on the need to be cautious at all times to avert such an unimaginable tragedy.

“Remembering everything we spoke about yesterday morning makes me find it so hard to believe you’re no more haaaa…. No o Bercy is this really true?
My heart bleeds. Please be very cautious of your home and environment… LCPL Bercy was bitten by a snake in her Water Cistern Toilet. (WC),” the friend of the deceased wrote.

She attached a video of the post-death moments where the live snake was being retrieved from the washroom.

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Kishore Badra of Gambharipatia village was returning home after working in his paddy field on Wednesday night when a snake bit him on his leg.

Badra managed to capture the viper and bit it to death in a bid to take revenge.

“Something bit my leg while I was returning home on foot last night. I switched on my torch and found it to be a poisonous krait snake. In order to take revenge, I took the snake in my hands and bit it repeatedly, killing the viper on the spot,” said Badra.

Following the incident, he returned to his village with the dead snake and told his wife about the incident. Badra was later seen flaunting the carcass.

Some onlookers advised Badra to visit a nearby hospital, but he refused to go to the hospital and instead went to a traditional healer to seek advice the same night.

Badra said on Thursday: “Even though I bit the poisonous krait, I did not feel any difficulty. I went to a traditional healer residing near the village and was cured.”

He narrated that he had worked extra hours in his office, only for a cobra to be found the next day when cleaners showed up to do their job.

“I was in my office and a cobra was found in my wardrobe, third floor of the building and I worked in that floor seven hours in the previous night and in the morning when they were cleaning, there was a cobra and it stood up. It was there all night and I was there.

“Let me tell you this, when you become a lover of God the enemy will leave you alone, because every attempt on your life will bounce back on him,” he recounted.

He said his love for God and his clean heart is the only reason why the devil could not attack him that night.

“You may read all the books I have written but until you discover my heart beat for God, you don’t know my secret.

“God knows I love him, all the devils know I love God and God proves perpetually and unending that I truly love him. So He manifests himself concerning me at His own time. He does it naturally in all the realms,” he said.

Speaking on finances, Pastor Oyedepo advised his congregation to pray for the hand of God to bear their finances.

“Everybody desire supernatural intervention in their finances but there is nothing you earn as wages that will be equal to wealth, it is the blessing of God that make rich and he adds no sorrow it. So, to bring the hand of God to bear on your finances, whatever God says to you to do regarding your finances, do it,” he said.

The python was seen hanging around her neck until it was time to say her final words as pallbearers get ready to carry the body to its final resting place.

A background voice narrating why she embarked on the ritual said the snake bit the tongue of the deceased and that was how he met his untimely death, hence she thought it apt to bury him with what killed him.

According to some friends, the young man used to play with snakes and his close python bit his tongue when he was trying to put it into his mouth.

The wife was seen putting one of his snakes into the casket as part of burial rituals for her late husband.

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The car was plying the bushy route of the Nsawam District where the incident occurred.

Photos, which have gone viral, saw the head of the reptile, believed to be a python, in-between the front tyres and its long tail still in the middle of the road.

However, the driver did not show any sign of panic and smiled behind the steering wheel.

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There was drama at the Kasoa toll booth on Tuesday when traders clashed with alleged ‘sakawa’ boys over a snake.

Reports indicate the snake crawled out of their car onto the streets causing fear and panic among witnesses.

They lamented the snake could be for ritual purpose, stating it was rare for that type to come to open spaces.

A young man was seen holding the snake as bystanders, mostly women, express their displeasure over the killing of the snake because they suspected it was a human being.

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One of the suspects is said to have confronted them for killing the snake.

However, amid the confrontation, a police vehicle, according to reports, pulled off causing them to flee the scene in their vehicle.

Watch the video attached above:

The distraught victim explained but for her son who woke up at dawn to drink water, they would never have discovered they were inhabiting the snake in their room.

It is my boy who saw it, he woke up to drink water and I don’t know how his gut directed him to look up. There and then he saw the thing roll and started screaming. Out of fear we all rushed out.

With the help of some other residents who rushed to the scene, the snake was killed and packaged in a white nylon bag.

In the background of the video sighted on Instablog9ja, the neighbors could be heard proclaiming the greatness of God for protecting the family from harm.

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Her brother in-law, @Zun_Noorayne, shared the sad story on Twitter while demanding awareness on dangers and the right first aid in any situation.

According to him, the deceased had gone to the toilet in the early hours of the day to urinate but unknown to her, the snake was inside the WC.

The snake reportedly attacked her immediately she sat to ease herself but she failed to realize it and proceeded with her activities.

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The Twitter user said no hospital could help save her life despite numerous attempts made.

He tweeted, “Today we lost my brother’s wife who was 8 months pregnant due to a snake bite as she went to ease herself in the early morning hours.Please be careful ehen making use of your toilets

Sadly our hospitals couldn’t be of help as some of the hospitals claim that they don’t keep antivenum cuz they hardly use it and it expires, can u inagine the stupidity?

As big as 44 hospital in Kaduna, they said, they had nothing to give her when she was rushed there and the express road in Kaduna that leads to NNPC clinic at Sabo, is in poor condition that lead to the delay and waste of time before they get there…

Our leaders only loot money for their personal needs but the masses mean nothing to them…

Lastly, if my voice could be heard, I’d wish we get more awareness on the dangers surrounding us and the right first aid in any situation and also awareness as how to differentiate snake bite from scorpion and other animals bite

An unidentified woman allegedly planted a sacrifice with snake in front of the shop of a woman.

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A sacrifice which many believed was intended to send a message to the mistress, warning her to stay off her husband.

In a video circulating on social media, a snake is captured wrapped in a red cloth in front of the shop’s gate together with the supposed husband and the said lover’s picture.

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The situation which attracted lots of onlookers happened in Agbor, a suburb of Delta State in Nigeria.

The onlookers, who couldn’t hide their dismay amidst fears, started summoning ‘holy ghost fire’ to consume the sacrifice.

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Member of Parliament (MP) for Adansi Asokwa constituency, Mr K.T. Hammond, has justified why Ghanaian Members of Parliament (MPs) must be appreciated.

Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosi Sen show, Monday, the lawmaker, whose comment on a new proposed chamber sparked controversy in parliament, said MPs face many challenges to the extent of physically working for their constituents.

“In my own constituency, my constituents asked me to chase a snake in a toilet and kill it. Just imagine, a whole me, being asked to kill a snake because they voted for me. How could I have done that? This is the kind of things we face.

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“I told them I can’t and so the only thing I can do is to give them money to buy a gun and kill it themselves. And so I visited there again and asked what they did and they said, they managed to kill it, I gave them money for a good work done,” he said.

He said unlike other constituents who refuse to rely on their MPs, his constituency has seen major developmental works because he believes the power of the people should not be underestimated.

According to him, such challenges MPs face are the main reasons he is justifying the construction of a new chamber.

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He, therefore, urged Ghanaians to rather appreciate the struggles of the MPs and not lambast them.

“Sometimes I find it hard to understand why Ghanaians hate MPs. If you don’t agree with us, just speak to the issue and not attack us,” he stated.

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The criticisms of Parliament have forced the leadership in Parliament to rescind its decision on the proposed $200 million worth 450-seat chamber.

The Acting Director of Public Affairs of Parliament, Mrs Kate Addo, who disclosed this, said more feasibility studies are needed for the project to proceed in future.

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A couple at Kotokrom, a community in the Sunyani Municipality on Wednesday fled for their lives when they realised a bag they had brought from a spiritualist for ritual money contained two big live snakes.

The snakes which the couple said were unknowingly in a suitcase in their bedroom for about five days had been killed and burnt by a Pastor they fled to for prayers to save their lives at Kotokrom.

Reverend Isaac Hinneh, the local head Pastor of Living Grace Ministries confirmed to the press in an interview in Sunyani but the names of the couple was not disclosed for security reason.

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He said the couple approached him that they went to a spiritualist at Wenchi in the Brong-Ahafo Region for financial assistant and were giving a suitcase supposed to be containing money.

Rev. Hinneh said the spiritualist asked the couple to wake up at midnight to perform some rituals with “some hair” in a paper offered to them before they would open the bag for the money but the hair vanished, so they became afraid.

According to the Pastor, the couple with the suitcase came to his house the following morning and narrated the matter to him.

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Rev. Hinneh said he told them to bring the bag to a watch night prayer session and invited two of his colleague Pastors from Chiraa in the Sunyani West District and Tanoso in the Tano North Municipality, also in the Region for prayer support.

He said after praying over the bag they opened it but found two big live snakes in it, adding that the couple immediately fled, leaving the bag and the Pastors to their fate.

Rev. Hinneh said the incident attracted people living around the area to scene, surrounding the church building in their numbers, adding that they therefore killed and burnt the animals.

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He advised the general public to depend on the almighty God always for their sources of power and money because spiritualists could only deceive people but did not have anything good to offer humankind.

According to Prophet Oduro Gyebi, whose prophesies are known to be spot on, in recent times, some miners went to seek the help of the river god years ago to help them get a lot of gold, but have ceased performing the agreed rituals since mining in the area went down.

Prophet Oduro Gyebi claimed that he went to pray throughout the night for Accra Mall, following his earlier revelation that there would be a fire outbreak.

His followers believe it was the prophet’s prayer that made God stop that fire outbreak.

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According to him, the river god in Obuasi was, therefore, angry and wants to leave the town, but would turn into a huge snake and crawl through the town to its preferred destination.

The prophet also said things will begin to work well for Obuasi should the snake leave the town but a serious calamity will befall them should they kill the snake on sight.

The revelation, Today learnt, made it very difficult for many traders to go to the central business district (CBD) two weeks ago because they did not know where exactly the snake would appear.

Even though sources say the fear and panic had reduced, many people were still on the lookout for ‘that huge snake.’

A journalist at Obuasi-based Time FM, Kwabena Sikayena, who first broke the story, corroborated the story to this reporter.

According to Mr Sikayena, “it is scary knowing that you may bump into a certain huge snake at any moment.”

Even though he said the residents lived in heightened fear and panic two weeks ago when they broke the news, he said the fear had relatively reduced and people had mastered courage to go about their trading.

But as for residents in and around Sanso, a well-known illegal mining area, a fresh rumour of the snake appearing last Tuesday morning has heightened their panic.

A resident of the area, Barbara Anam told this reporter that the rumour, though unconfirmed, has made them very panicky and prayed for God’s protection.

“Apart from everything, what we even fear is when it appears and someone kills it with a gun, the prophet said we would be doomed should this happen,” she said frighteningly.

A junior high school (JHS) pupil also narrated how she had a dream and saw that the snake had actually appeared and biting people who did not have a certain mark on their foreheads.

Her narration showed how scary people had reacted to the revelation of the prophet to the extent that some were even having nightmares about it.

Adom News reported in August 2017 that snakes had invaded the regional office, leaving staff in fear.

The staff complained of insects and other wild reptiles which had made the facility their home.

The report revealed how the dilapidated nature of the offices was making working at the facility very difficult and general life uncomfortable.

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But a recent visit to the place after a year of those reports paints a different picture and a marked improvement in the situation.

Staff at the regional office said work was being smooth as they no longer work in fear.

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“Now, I can confidently direct someone to my office. Then, I couldn’t invite people over because I would be ridiculed if they see the deplorable office I was working in.”…she said excitedly.

Director General of NADMO, Nana Agyeman Prempeh, said this is just one of the many offices to be transformed to give a total facelift for the relief outfit.

Narrating the incident, the 38-year-old man said he was on his farm with the wife and less than a year old daughter when he heard unusual screams from the baby.

Alarmed by the screaming he rushed to the scene to meet a long python of about 4 meters about to swallow his baby.

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He said he tried to fight off the animal but it coiled around him. In a struggle, he managed to hold the neck of the animal and tied it with a rope to over overpower it.

Eklu was grateful to God for saving the lives of his family and recounted how fear gripped him at the sight of the scene.

Residents of Dzodze were thrown into a state of shock and fear when the warrior coiled the dead python around his neck and brought it to the central business area.

After the triumphant display, he later went to the St Anthony’s Hospital with his family for a medical checkup.

The EFCC’s official logo is of an eagle with the country’s coat of arms on it.
Nigerian social media space is still buzzing over a report over the weekend in a local portal that a clerk had told auditors that missing state funds had been ‘eaten’ by a mysterious snake.
The missing funds belong to the country’s Joints Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), a state agency responsible for the registration of admissions for people seeking to enter the various universities.
JAMB has since suspended the clerk and vowed to unravel the mystery.
The particular incident took place at the JAMB offices in Makurdi, capital of Benue State where the clerk in answering audit queries said her housemaid and a fellow employee had confessed to ‘spiritually’ stealing the monies she kept in an office vault.
Auditors from the capital Abuja had been sent to take inventory of funds accrued over the sale of scratch cards to students hoping to gain access to JAMB’s website to register or check on the status of their admissions.
The audit came up after reforms by the current registrar struck out the use of the cards.

The 1.5m long (5ft) snake was found on Monday in Melvin Yap’s home.

Mr Yap extricated the python with a stick, and passed it to an animal rescue group. He told the BBC that their pet bird, named Nikki, survived unharmed, but was “petrified”.

Large snakes are not uncommon in Singapore, which has abundant wildlife.

‘I woke up to screams’

Mr Yap said he was still sleeping early on Monday morning when he was woken up by frantic screams in the house.

“My domestic helper was in the process of cleaning the bird’s cage. The snake was just right in front of her, and she didn’t see it until my wife spotted it and screamed ‘Snake!’,” he said.

“There was mayhem and panic.”

Mr Yap rushed downstairs along with his 10-year-old daughter, who assisted him as he “coaxed” the snake into a large plastic bag with a stick.

They later put it into an unused fish tank “so it wouldn’t suffocate”, and called a local animal rescue group which took it away later that afternoon.

His encounter, which was covered by local media outlets, drew astonished responses from Singaporeans, not least for the way in which he caught the reptile. “STICK and PLASTIC BAG???? Salute ah!” wrote one incredulous Facebook commenter.

But Mr Yap said he “just wanted to quickly contain the situation, and ensure my loved ones didn’t get hurt”.

“After I caught it, I realised it was more scared of us than the other way round. It was in defensive mode, curling up and trying to protect itself.”

He added that his family grew less fearful of the snake once they realised it was a python, which does not have a venomous bite.

Baby pythons had been previously spotted in neighbouring homes, though they were often killed, said Mr Yap, whose home is near a forested area.

Singapore, a densely-built island that still has thriving pockets of primary rainforest, has seen increasing human-wildlife encounters in recent years, involving wild boars, deer, snakes, and monkeys.

There have also been reports of giant pythons, which are common in South East Asia, attacking people. In March this year an Indonesian man was apparently swallowed by a python, while earlier this month another Indonesian was badly hurt after wrestling with a python – which was subsequently killed and eaten.

But Mr Yap said he did not want to harm the snake which slithered into his home.

“We’re stewards of the environment and the creatures who live in it. I’m just grateful and appreciative of the encounter,” said the 46-year-old animal lover, though he admitted his wife “still has some concerns about lurking snakes”.

Meanwhile, Nikki appears to still be recovering from its near-death experience.

“Usually in the morning it loves to chirp, but this morning it was extremely quiet. No noise from the poor bird,” said Mr Yap. “I think we’ll have to give it more sunflower seeds as a treat.”

One of such attractions is the snake village at Liati Soba.

Afadzato South is one of the youngest districts of the Volta Region with a lot of tourist attractions.

The district which was carved out of the existing Hohoe Municipality currently harbors sections of the ever deteriorating Eastern Corridor road.

One of the almost forgotten and neglected tourist sites of the district is the snake village at Liati Soba which in the past provided home for more than 15 types of snakes including a 1.7 metre long python which escaped in 2015 due to the poor conditions at the village.

Manager in-charge of the village, Gado Safiu told Joy News that he is collaborating with the Assembly and other stakeholders to help develop the snake village into a better tourist site.

According to him, efforts are also underway to add more snakes to the Ball Python and Viper which are currently at the village.

DCE for the area, Lawyer Wisdom Semanu Seneadza told Joy News that the tourist sector in the district is key to the area’s development, adding that the poor road infrastructure would be dealt with under some policy interventions of government.

Lawyer  Seneadza  hopes something is done about this in terms of developing the area into a tourist site.

A chronic water crisis at the school has rendered its flush toilets inoperative whereupon close to a thousand recruits, more than 400 of whom are females, now have to squat dangerously in the bush to ease themselves.

“We have recorded one snake bite,” the Director of the school, ACP Adusah Poku, told Starr News Thursday. “He was taken to the hospital. We also have anti-snake venom here; so, we took it along. Now, the bush is overgrowing. If you go there, you can have problems.”

He disclosed further: “We have a 20-room toilet facility but we cannot use it because we don’t have the water to flush it. As for bathing, the recruits can get some water to bathe. The only water we have is for their feeding and for their bathing. But for the flushing, we don’t have the water. So, they have to go into the bush to ease themselves.”

A number of recruits rushed into the bush after the recruit (name withheld) gave a shout of horror during the snake attack, but the poisonous reptile had slithered away through the bush. The victim, whilst in pain, could only describe the snake as thick and short, as he pointed in the direction the snake went and grabbed his leg where it had sunk its fangs.

Meanwhile, authorities have advised all recruits to get a torch to lead the way when they are heading for the bush at night and a cutlass to use for burying the waste when they are done.

“Fortunately, the recruit survived the snake attack. But we’ve made them (the recruits) to acquire torchlights and they go there with a cutlass. If they go there without a cutlass and they defecate around, you can’t go there the next day. Over 800 recruits going to the bush, can you go there every day? That is why they have to dig a hole and cover it so that the next day they can still go there,” the Director said.

The good and the ugly

The institution, established in 2005, was formerly known as the Pwalugu Police Training School, training only recruits.

It was converted in 2014 into Police Public Safety Training School to groom recruits into police officers and to conduct international training programmes for both junior and senior police ranks on how to effectively counter cross-border terrorism attacks, armed robbery operations, and illegal mining activities among other high-risk security missions.

Despite the upgrade, the school still lacks some requisite structures that befit an institution of that status. It’s dormitories and classrooms need serious expansion so trainees can be conveniently accommodated.

The school’s computer laboratory is big but boring. The 30 sets of computers found in the laboratory are not internet-connected. The administration wants a barbed-wire fence wall but that dream is yet far from start.

But the good news is that a road network with drains is being constructed on the campus. The old lamentations over the lack of security lights are also over. The area is now well lit with photo-sensor skylite lamps. Besides, a contractor is about to finish and hand over a brand new 100-metre parade ground to the administration.

Above all, the UniBank Ghana Limited is making efforts to provide the school with a concrete overhead water tank to bring an end to the water crisis. ACP Poku spoke of the UniBank intervention: “We have brought experts and a contractor. They have taken the measurements already.Community Water and Sanitation officials also came and took the estimates. They are studying it. We are only awaiting approval for the construction to start.”

It’s fascinating — but mostly gross.

Viral video of a big snake regurgitating another serpent that’s still alive might be one of the creepiest, WTF reptile moments caught on camera. It’s seriously… eek!

Christopher Reynolds filmed the predator and its fully swallowed prey under some leaves in Newton, Texas, National Geographic reported Monday.

Reynolds guessed that his presence might have scared the black snake from fully digesting its meal, the magazine noted. He said it was the slithery victim’s “super, ultra, lottery-lucky day.”

But for anyone who watches this, it might not be your lucky day if you’re about to eat.

In the YouTube video Reynolds posted Saturday, he wrote that he caught the spectacle while driving home from his mother’s with his wife, Nina. She suggested he film it.

“I am happy I did,” he said.

The snake was hung around the actress’s neck for a few seconds when she started screaming and begging for it to be removed.

She was unable to go ahead with the shoot NEWS-ONE gathered, as she refused to use the snake in the scene.

“I was scared it would bite me, hence I started shouting. I couldn’t continue the shoot,” she confirmed Wednesday afternoon.

Details about the upcoming movie are murky but it is being directed by Pascal Amanfo and features other stars, including Bismark The Joke.

This is Kisa’s first job in months after reports of her losing her sister. She was on holidays in Dubai when she had the shocking news of her sister’s death. She went off for a while but she is back now.

Currently, Kisa is one of Ghana’s young and rising acting talents. From a humble beginning in Ghana’s movie industry, she is one few youngsters who also managed to cross over into Nigeria’s Nollywood movie industry.

She started career as a musician but ended up acting. On top of the list of her filmography are ‘The Miser’, ‘Accra Runs’, ‘Accra Hustlers’, ‘Stand By Me’, ‘8PM’ and others. She recent produced the movie titled ‘Thank God It’s Friday’.

The man, who was en route to Russia, was detained on a stopover at Schiphol airport after a trip to Brazil, the , the Dutch food and animal watchdog said on Wednesday.

“There were dozens of live snakes, frogs, cockroaches and lizards hidden in his luggage. A large number of these animals are extremely poisonous,” the food and consumer safety authority (NVWA) said.

The find included 26 highly poisonous lancehead vipers, 10 poisonous frogs, 33 cockroaches and rare lizards.

The animals were stashed in plastic buckets with lids and placed in the man’s backpack.

“The man has seriously harmed the animals by stuffing them into these plastic buckets, therefore a charge of cruelty to animals has been opened,” the NVWA said.

The man remained in custody while further investigations continued. The reptiles and insects were taken to an animal shelter.

Rod Dazivasen, general manager of the Central Mass. Aquatics pet store, said animal control officers were called April 5 to the Marriott Residence Inn in Worcester to remove what was initially thought to be a 5-foot-long ball python from a drawer in one of the hotel’s rooms.

“He may be two years old but he’s not an old snake,” Dzivasen told the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. “Why on earth they had him in a hotel room is beyond me.”

Police said they were unable to locate the person who had been staying in the room.

“We tried to find the owner, but he gave the clerk a fake name and just disappeared,” animal control officer Patrick Cherry told The Boston Globe.

Richard Wilson, owner of Central Mass. Aquatics, said the snake is now being taken to New England Reptile Distributors in Plaistow, N.H., after experts identified it as a golden child reticulated python, which can grow to up to 18 feet long and are illegal to keep without a permit in Massachusetts.