An unlucky young man was airlifted to hospital twice after being bitten by a snake twice at the same location. 
 
 The 18-year-old contractor was bitten by an unidentified snake on the lower right leg while clearing scrub on a Capella property west of Rockhampton about 10.30am on Friday. 
 
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 Link The RACQ CQ Rescue helicopter airlifted the man twice to Mackay hospital in three days. Photo: RACQ CQ Rescue 
 
 An RACQ CQ Rescue helicopter airlifted the man to Mackay Base Hospital in a stable condition. 
 
 On Sunday, the man went back to work in the same paddock when he was bitten again by a snake, twice on the left forearm, when he put down his chainsaw after clearing scrub. 
 
 Another rescue helicopter, with a doctor and care paramedic aboard, airlifted the man to Mackay Base Hospital just before midday. 
 
 The 18-year-old couldn't describe the type of snake to aircrew, only that it was "brown coloured". 
 
 "This incredibly unlucky fellow wasn't very talkative as he was in great deal pain when we arrived at the hospital today," an RACQ CQ Rescue crewman said. 
 
 "He did tell us this time the snakebite happened at the opposite end of the same paddock he was working in when he was bitten on Friday." 
 
 On Tuesday, a woman, 25, was airlifted to Mackay Base Hospital from Clermont after she was bitten on the toe by a brown snake as she walked to a sandpit with her two children. ||||| BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A man working to clear trees and shrubs in the Australian Outback was bitten by venomous snakes twice in three days. 
 
 On Friday, the 18-year-old man was bitten on his right leg by an unidentified snake while using a chain saw in a field in Queensland state near the township of Capella, the RACQ Rescue helicopter service in Mackay said in a statement Monday. 
 
 After treatment, he returned to work in the same field and was bitten on his left arm by a brown-colored snake Sunday. 
 
 A helicopter with a doctor and paramedic aboard flew him 300 kilometers (200 miles) back to Mackay Base Hospital for treatment of the second bite, the statement said. 
 
 "This incredibly unlucky fellow wasn't very talkative as he was in a great deal pain when we arrived at the hospital" on Sunday, the statement said. 
 
 The man was almost certainly bitten by different snakes, said Claudia Corrigan, a snake expert from Canberra Reptile Zoo. 
 
 Both likely were eastern brown snakes, also known as the common brown snake, which is world's second-most-venomous land snake after Australia's inland taipan, Corrigan said. ||||| KUANTAN: When zookeeper Mohd Sabron Jamil Kamarudin was hospitalised after he was bitten by a king cobra in 2012, firemen Abu Zarin Hussin would visit him regularly to provide support. 
 
 Sadly, Abu Zarin, who gained fame for his breathtaking snake-catching skills, himself succumbed to a cobra bite he sustained on March 13 at the Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Hospital's (HOSHAS) Intensive Care Unit early today. 
 
 Sabron, who spent more than a month at the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital (HTAA) here and went under the knife seven times after the snake bite, said he was shocked with the news. 
 
 The 31-year-old Kuantan Municipal Council staff said he became close friends with Abu Zarin when he was warded at HTAA after he was bitten by a king cobra on March 1, 2012. 
 
 "I clearly remember our first meeting when he came to the ward in his fireman uniform....that marked the beginning of our friendship. Abu Zarin will regularly drop by to visit me and gave me the strength, and support I needed at the time. 
 
 "We started sharing stories and experiences in handling the reptile, and despite being an 
 
 expert in handling king cobras, Abu Zarin still consulted me on certain matters....he is well- 
 
 respected by many people," he said when contacted today. 
 
 Sabron, who works at Teruntum Zoo here, said upon learning about Abu Zarin's death about 2am today, he and a few friends rushed to HOSHAS in Temerloh to pay their last respects. 
 
 "Upon reaching HOSHAS, we were informed that the hearse carrying his remains had just left the hospital premises to Pasir Puteh, Kelantan. 
 
 “I managed to contact his family and we were allowed to pay our last respects when the 
 
 hearse stopped at the Temerloh toll plaza. I have lost a daring and genuine friend, who is one of a kind," said Sabron, who only relies on his right arm now. 
 
 In the March 1, 2012 incident, Sabron waited for four hours for the right anti-venom after 
 
 being bitten by a king cobra on his left wrist while cleaning the snake's cage. 
 
 Meanwhile, former Temerloh fire and rescue station volunteer fireman Mohd Ikhwan Hafizi Ali, 30, said he will not forget the times when Abu Zarin and him used to enter rubber estates to track down the cobras. 
 
 "It will sometimes take hours but Abu Zarin will remain patient. Although he was off-duty, 
 
 whenever a villager reports the presence of a reptile, the both of us will go and try to 
 
 catch the snake. 
 
 "There were times when we stepped on the snakes' nest when trying to catch the reptile at 
 
 plantations and at times we were almost bitten by the highly poisonous cobras," he said. 
 
 Temerloh forestry department officer Azqan Dalila Ahmad Tajudin, 32, said she became more confident in handling snakes including cobras after attending a course organised by Abu Zarin last year. 
 
 "He showed the proper techniques and equipments to handle the snakes. All the knowledge that he shared with me has been helpful since I often enter the jungle to carry out my duties and risk crossing paths with the reptiles," she said. 
 
 Abu Zarin, 33, who was in critical condition after being bitten by a cobra he was attempting to catch in Bentong, was later taken to HOSHAS. He died at 12.55am today. 
 
 He led the Fire and Rescue Department's King Cobra Squad which was established in 2015 to 
 
 help train firemen to catch venomous animals and often conducted training. 
 
 Reporting By Raja Norain Hidayah Raja Abdul Aziz, Mohd Rafi Mamat and Nazirul Roselan
– Australian kids today probably don't hear much late-'80s glam rock anymore, which may explain why Great White's "once bitten, twice shy" mantra didn't come into play in this story out of Queensland. Per the Brisbane Times and the AP, an 18-year-old contractor was clearing away trees and other overgrowth near Capella on Friday when a snake emerged from the scrub and bit him on the lower right leg. A Royal Automobile Club of Queensland chopper flew the man to Mackay Base Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. But while his wounds likely weren't pleasant, the unnamed man toughed it out and headed back to the same patch of grasslands on Sunday with his chainsaw, ready to get back to his job. Which led to two more snakebites on the opposite side of the field, this time on his left forearm, and another ride in a rescue helicopter to Mackay. "This incredibly unlucky fellow wasn't very talkative, as he was in [a] great deal [of] pain when we arrived at the hospital," one of the RACQ crew notes to the Times. The injured man couldn't provide any detailed description of this particular attacker, other than it was "brown colored." A snake expert from Canberra Reptile Zoo tells the AP that the unfortunate guy was likely the victim of two separate slitherers, and that they were probably both of the eastern brown snake variety—said to be the second most toxic snake in the world, per the Billabong Sanctuary. (This poor guy has a similar story, except his involves spiders and toilets.)