A family visiting Singapore from China said a snake bit their 2-year-old daughter while they walked beside the Asian Civilisations Museum on Oct. 4.
Here’s what to know
According to Mothership, the child was with her family on the path outside the museum at 1 Empress Place when the snake bit her ankle. Her mother said in a Xiaohongshu post from Xiaoxiang Morning Post that they had stayed off the grass and had not interacted with wildlife beforehand.
After the bite, the family called an ambulance and later contacted Singapore’s National Parks Board, or NParks, about the snake. Her mother said the wound “immediately turned red and swelled up,” and the child kept crying in pain.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it received an assistance call around 10:25 p.m. on Oct. 4 and took one person to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, according to Mothership.
According to HK01, the mother said in a comment on Oct. 6 that her daughter’s condition had improved significantly. She also said the family paid the medical bills themselves.
More background
The mother said a friend who had spent more than two decades in Singapore had never seen a snake there before, Mothership reported.
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