A man taken to Calvary Hospital after being bitten by a snake was later allowed to leave after tests revealed no venom had been injected into his body.
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The 29-year-old man was walking in bushland near the ACT Netball Centre in Lyneham on Saturday afternoon when he was bitten on the arm.
He walked about 800m to the centre where he received first aid, and the ACT Ambulance Service was called about 2.30pm.
Intensive care paramedics treated the man before taking him to hospital in a stable condition.
The species of the snake is unknown.
The man suggested a species of snake, but testing for venom on the puncture area found no venom, so it was impossible to identify the snake.
A hospital spokesman said the man had been kept in the emergency department for some time for more tests on the wound.
‘‘He was observed and there were no symptoms that he had any venom injected into him during the bite process," the spokesman said.
‘‘There certainly had been a snake bite of some sort, but the testing that was done around the wound and other testing detected no venom had been injected. He had been bitten. It was no false alarm.’’
The man was discharged from hospital with no apparent ill effects.