This is the agonising moment a man writhed in pain after a snake bit his penis and refused to let go in unsettling scenes from Brazil.
The victim was seen in viral video grimacing on the ground as a friend filmed from a cautious distance.
A third person bravely stepped in to dislodge the obstinate reptile with a stick, forcing the rod into the snake’s jaws in an effort to break its grip.
With the snake unmoved, and struggling for solutions, the group poured water on it – to little effect.
The video, filmed in Pantanal, Brazil, was shared widely on Instagram and TikTok, with audiences sharing in horrified reaction.
‘It hurt watching that and I’m not even a guy,’ one commented.
Crocodile Cam, a popular animal conservationist on X, said that the snake was a king cobra, carrying a neurotoxic venom that ‘attacks the nerves and can cause paralysis’.
‘They have enough venom to kill 20 grown me or one adult elephant and their venom can kill you in as little as 15 minutes.’
The king cobra is not endemic to Brazil.
The man was reportedly taken to hospital for medical treatment after the snake eventually loosened its grip on his nether regions.
There have been no further updates on his current condition, as reported by What’s The Jam.
In 2021, a man needed surgery to rebuild his penis after he was bitten by a cobra while on the toilet during a trip in South Africa.
The 47-year-old Dutch man was using the bathroom at an unnamed nature reserve in the country.
He was stunned when bitten by a highly venomous snouted cobra hidden inside the bowl.
The unidentified man then had to wait three hours for emergency services to airlift him to the nearest hospital – which was nearly 220 miles away.
In that time he felt a deep burning sensation in his genitals, which began to swell and turn purple, a sign of scrotal necrosis or ‘flesh eating disease’.
Experts who reported the case in Urology Case Reports said the man has the unfortunate honour of being the first medical case of snouted cobra envenomation of the genitals.
The man was provided emergency treatment in South Africa but a serious amount of the tissue in his penis was unrecoverable and had to be cut away.
Nine days later the Dutch national was repatriated to the Netherlands where even more dead penis tissue had to be removed.
Dutch surgeons then set about rebuilding his penis using a graft of tissue they took from his groin to replace the dead tissue lost from the snake bite.