"I think it was about 2 litres of antivenom, and apparently my kidneys started to fail so they put me on a plane and sent me to Adelaide."
"I had him by the tail and I was trying to put him in the bucket, and he didn't want to go,"he said.
"Very few people die, and part of that is because we have really good antivenom that is widely available,"he said.
"So we'll take precautions … [but] I'll still handle them, that's just me."
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