After Battling Covid, Malaria And Dengue, Man Now Survives Deadly Snakebite

After recovering from COVID-19, dengue and malaria, a man in India is currently recuperating from a potentially deadly snake bite.

Ian Jones, a charity worker from Britain who has been living in India for the past few months, suffered from the three diseases while in the country.

To top it all, he was recently hospitalized after being bitten by an Indian black king cobra in a village in the western state of Rajasthan last week.

"Jones came to us last week after a snake bite in a village in the region. Initially it was suspected that he is also Covid-19 positive (for the second time) but he tested negative for that," Dr. Abhishek Tater told Agence France-Presse, news outlet Mint reported.

"While with us, he was conscious and had snake bite symptoms including blurring of vision and difficulty to walk, but these are generally transient symptoms. We feel that there won't be any long term effects. If he hasn't already improved, he'd do so within next few days," he added.

Jones has since been released from the hospital and was recovering.

He was running a charity-backed social enterprise and was in Rajasthan to support the traditional craftsmen. Jones was living in a warehouse "so he could be closer to the people he supports," Claire Robertson, his colleague, told the BBC.

"He was in an area of the warehouse that he’d made his living quarters when his adopted dog, Rocky, started barking, and when he reached out to soothe him the cobra, alerted by his sudden movement, bit him twice," she said.

His son, Seb Jones, told BBC his father "remained resolute in his determination to stay in the country and continue his work to help the people that needed his support. When we heard he had also suffered what is usually a fatal snakebite on top of all that he had been through, we honestly could not believe it."

His family and colleagues have managed to raise money on a crowdfunding website for his treatment and transport home.

"Now facing, mounting medical bills and being unable to leave the country, we are setting up this Go Fund Me page in the hope of urgently raising some money to help meet the tens of thousands of pounds needed for his care, before he can return home to his family on the Isle of Wight," the GoFundMe page stated.