Venomous snake bites sleeping girl in bed

A 12-year-old girl has been hospitalized in Chongqing after a poisonous snake crawled into her bed and bit her as she slept on November 21.

"The doctors said it takes at least six days to work all the venom from her body," said the parent Hu Xiaoming.

The girl woke with a scream as she slept with her grandmother that night in Tongji village, Dianjiang county, who soon discovered the girl was bleeding from her right wrist.

Hu explained the next morning they found a brown snake about 60 centimeters in length coiled under their bed, which by that time the girl's hand had become completely swollen. Four distinct teeth marks were also visible.

According to Huang Yongzhao, an animal expert with Chongqing Museum of Natural History, a warm bed can be quite attractive to a snake looking to hibernate as winter approaches.

The report failed to identify the species of snake.