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03-24-2014, 01:28 AM
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Re: Snake Bite on Foot
This may be the most disturbing thing you see in the month of May … a deadly snake bit a TV producer in the foot … and the damage is bone-chilling — literally and figuratively. The zombie foot belongs to Steve Rankin … a producer on the upcoming Discovery show “Naked and Afraid,” which drops 2 nude survivalists in remote locations and films their struggle to stay alive. Rankin tells TMZ … “I was scouting locations in Costa Rica … As I was traversing through some deep jungle I was bitten on the foot by a Fer-de-Lance. It’s one of the deadliest snakes in the world and the fangs went right through my boot.” Rankin says his team hustled him for 2 miles on a makeshift stretcher, drove to a helipad and had him airlifted to a San Jose hospital … where he got antivenom and antibiotics. But things went horribly wrong … “About 5 days later the flesh in my foot had started to rot,” he said … surgeons in Costa Rica had to cut away a serious chunk of it … he was then rushed back to L.A. for skin grafts. He says he’s recovering nicely now. |