An Australian man credits his wife saving his life after her quick thinking saved him from possible death from a snake bite.

Andrew Richards, on a camping trip to Fraser Island, says his wife’s response to his being bitten by a eastern brown snake is why he is now on the road to recovery.

Colleen, his wife, working with the staff at a nearby store, used strips of gaffers tape to apply pressure to the wound and prevent the spread of the deadly snake venom.

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