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A story out of India about a man's fatal encounter with a snake and his romantic gesture toward his wife has spread online, but with little in the way of corroboration. The Gulf News reported on 12 June 2017 that Shankar Rai was bitten by the snake while asleep in his home in the village of Birsingpur, but became emotional when he woke up to discover his condition was getting worse. The story went on: However, the story failed to give the doctor's surname (Jaykant is usually a given name) or elaborate on anonymous reports it cited as a source for the story. The story was subsequently picked up by web sites in not only India, but the United States. Those stories, though, did not add any details adding to the original report, leaving open the question of Dr. Jaykant's identity, among other details. We contacted Shri Pranav Kumar, the magistrate assigned to the Samastipur district (where Birsingpur is located) by the Indian Administrative Service seeking comment. He has not responded. We also contacted the Gulf News seeking more details about its report, but have yet to hear back. We also reached out to several zoos and medical experts, as well as the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, to ask whether it is possible to poison someone by biting them after being bitten by a poisonous snake. Scott Lafee, a spokesperson for the school of medicine at the University of California-San Diego, told us: Frank Burbink, a research associate in the herpetology division at the American Museum of Natural History, dismissed the idea just as bluntly:
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