[banana dick]

the sad part is this is definitely a child. look at the itty bitty legs are you sure this is a snake bite, and not something else? like maybe a terrible burn, or a flesh-eating disease?

[Barks a Lot]

That was definitely a snake bite. I've seen the picture before. If I remember the story right, the child was bitten on his lower calf (the area with the most damage) by some type of pit viper, such as a Russel's Viper or a Saw-Scaled Viper, and the parents refused medical treatment because they didn't want to pay. The government seized the child from the parents, and treated the leg as best they could.

[Barks a Lot]

Here is another necrotic leg caused by a snake bite. This girl was bitten by an Ashe's Spitting Cobra 3 weeks earlier. http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image...617542-gr6.jpg

[gatagato]

The 11-Year-Old Boy had been bitten two weeks earlier by a Bothrops asper (viper) in Ecuador. The degree of necrosis is sufficiently severe that some form of surgical amputation above the knee would have been inevitable.
Date: 2006
Source: Gutiérrez JM, Theakston RDG, Warrell DA (2006) Confronting the Neglected Problem of Snake Bite Envenoming: The Need for a Global Partnership. PLoS Med 3(6): e150, doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030150 (image link)
Author D. A. Warrell

Such pathological alterations are caused by the direct action of locally acting toxins in the venom (mostly metalloproteinases and phospholipases A2), together with an indirect effect promoted by local inflammatory events and ischemia secondary to venom-induced vascular damage and increased intracompartmental pressure.

[jbell0129]

rub some tussin on it...damn that leg is gone!

[flangemanager]

The pain must have been horrendous, especially in it's untreated state.

[banana dick]

wtf man I'm surprised he didn't die. shit parents

[GlassToTheArson]

Yeah definitely some sort of burn

[PunkNana66]

That isssssss (lol) a snake bite!

[GentalMymnastics]

How has this person not died from blood poisoning?