WATCH: Man eats snake, believes it will keep COVID-19 away
The man was arrested for his actions.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc in many parts of the world and currently, India is seeing the worst of it.
An Indian man was arrested after he posted a video on social media of himself eating a snake.
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The man believes by eating the snake, it would "keep COVID-19 at bay".
The man claims to have been forced into eating the snake by other men while he was drunk, The Times of India said.
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"He was lucky that he did not bite into the venom glands of the snake which was a common krait," Madurai S Ananda, the district forest officer, told The Times of India. "The common krait contains neurotoxins that can paralyze a human being."
There is no evidence to suggest that eating snakes cures COVID-19.
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