DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2015.v03i11.032

Pages: 1115-1116

Insect bites among farmers in India usually occur on the lower limb due to not wearing sandals. The poisonous effects of insect bites can range from mild skin reaction to life-threatening injury. A 60 year old man, agriculture in profession, with no previous history of co morbidities, found dead in his agriculture field in the early morning. Deceased was moderately built and nourished. Deceased body was brought to Post-Mortem at Department Of Forensic Medicine & Toxicolgy, Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, BG Nagara, Nagamangala Taluk, Mandya district. In conclusion the early morning, deceased went outside of his house for passing stools at his field. At that time he was bitten by haemotoxic snake on his left leg just above the lateral malleolus. Since he was in bare foot, poison has spread all over the body leading to hemorrhagic shock and death. When his body was lying on the ground, there was oozing of blood from his left leg which has attracted many ants leading to multiple bite marks on his both the lower limb.