Death is generally due to respiratory paralysis or convulsions. Treatment is anti-venin and supportive as needed. Envenomation presents as pain. Onset of swelling is much slower than with the crotalids. Death is usually due to convulsions.
Treatment is anti-venin and supportive.
The blunt-nosed viper can kill a camel. Indian has 230 species of snakes with 50 of them venomous including Russel's viper, the saw-sealed viper, common krait, and the common cobra. Human bites from the King Cobra are rare, but the venom may kill an elephant. Similar to Indian snakes, with the addition of the Malayan Pit Viper. The boomslang and birdsnakes are arboreal.