A woman is recovering in hospital after a snake bite on Monday.
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Queensland Ambulance Service said an adult female patient was transported to Hughenden Hospital in a stable condition following a reported snake bite.
QAS said the incident occurred at a location at a private residence at 6.37pm.
Last month another woman was taken to Hughenden hospital after a snake bite at private residence on Hughenden-Muttaburra Road.
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Meanwhile a fisherman who died off the Northern Territory coast is believed to be the first person to be killed by a sea snake bite in Australia in more than 80 years.
Harry Evans, from the UK, died on a trawler after being bitten by a sea snake.
Last Thursday, Mr Evans was bitten and killed by a sea snake as he pulled a net onto a trawler, in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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