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"gewg_" writes:

from the that's-gotta-hurt dept.

El Reg reports [theregister.co.uk]

Indian doctors have published the eye-watering account of a farmer who was bitten on the penis "while he was urinating in an open field".

The unnamed 46-year-old hobbled to accident and emergency three hours after taking a hit from a "gunas", the local name for the Levantine viper (Macrovipera lebetina).

The report [nejm.org] [Sets 7 required cookies] in The New England Journal of Medicine (NSFW and certainly not for the faint-hearted) says the unfortunate chap was suffering "a grossly swollen penis and formation of hemorrhagic bullae at the puncture sites".

Happily, administration of "polyvalent anti-snake venom (a snake antivenom serum that neutralises the venom of the cobra, common krait, and viper)" did the trick, and he was discharged after 36 hours.

Four days later, the swelling had subsided, leaving merely "necrotic tissue at the puncture sites". A couple of weeks later, the victim had completely recovered.

There's an old joke [google.com] about 2 guys, where 1 is bitten...

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