Myths on Snakes in India

  FIVE HEADED COBRA - A Legendry Myth         In India all epics and temples are constantly blend with wild animals and plants particularly snakes are exhibited from head to foot of God’s further adored with statues, pictures, Paintings and sculptures of five Headed cobr’s.being a culture of wisdom and science, i think all of them were taught to Us for one reason, one fact that is co- existence to “Respect Adore and Serve Nature” they struggle a lot to teach us, to build a culture that lives along with plants and animals treating them equally, but I fear that we have wrecked them unsuccessfully (Unmindfully Depleted the life supporting nature and provoked it against us)       Clipping from the News Paper       Several Local News papers & medias publishes News's on  Five Head snake Even  On 23-4 2010- Local Media (malai malar) & 24-4-2010 kalai kathir there was a media release in Erode, District Tamil. Nadu India, stating that a Person (photographe

          About 25,000 to 40,000 people are dying of snakebite in India every year, and of these, many face an agonizing death. but Unfortunately, Reliable statistics data on snake Envenomation are impossible.         The data's we have, are based on assumptions of  identification of snake, that is reported by the victims.  According to snakebite management in Asia & Africa produced by international medical research council in 2010, the following number of Human deaths occurs every year owing to snake bite in south Asian countries, based on a 10- percent of mortality rate for reported bites: India-11,000: Pakistan-1,200: Bangladesh-6,000: Sri Lanka -800 (Medical documents however, say over 3 -5 times higher the data of above death rate and snake bite in India. as  25,000 to 50,000 ) Total ignorance prevails about snakes and snakebite in India. many precious lives are lost and snakes are hounded and killed due to deep rooted superstitions The