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A British tourist has been left in intensive care after being bitten by a venomous snake during a meditation session while on holiday to Cyprus to mark her 40th birthday.
Sam West, 40, from Shifnal, in Shropshire, was bitten by a 1.5m-long blunt nosed viper on April 3 as she was getting ready to start a meditation session at the Atlantica Aphrodite Hills hotel.
'It quickly, before I had time to react, bit me just above my left ankle. I started to shake the snake off as I shouted that I had just been bitten by a snake,' she told the BBC.
'My leg was burning and throbbing, the pain was instantaneous,' she added. Hotel staff quickly came to her aid and she was taken to A&E, where she was told she urgently needed anti-venom.
Ms West, who is on holiday in Cyprus with her wife, had to spent four days in intensive care and another in a different ward until she was finally discharged to the hotel with medication last Monday.
