Sam West, from Shifnal, in Shropshire, was bitten by a 1.5m-long blunt nosed viper on April 3 as she was getting ready to start a meditation session at the Atlantica Aphrodite Hills hotel.
Sam West, 40, was bitten by a blunt nosed viper on April 3 at her Cyprus hotelA British tourist was left in intensive care after being bitten by a venomous snake during a meditation session while on holiday to Cyprus to mark her 40th birthday.
'My leg was burning and throbbing, the pain was instantaneous,' she added. Hotel staff quickly came to her aid and she was taken to A&E, where she was told she urgently needed anti-venom. She has since relied on a wheelchair to get around after pictures showed her leg being severely bruised and swollen due to the snake biteMs West was bitten by a blunt-nosed viper in Cyprus that was hiding in the greenery around the mediation platform
Ms West said the hotel had cut back the area around the meditation platform where she was bitten and has repeatedly called pest control.
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