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A NON-VERBAL autistic boy, 4, has tragically died from a curable snake bite after being unable to tell anyone what had happened.
Italo Alves dos Santos had been playing at his grandma’s home in Equador city, Brazil, when a deadly rattlesnake bit his foot.
Despite predictably being in absolute agony, Italo wasn’t able to tell his family he was bitten.
Instead, the four-year-old could only point to his swollen ankle due to being non-verbal.
Italo’s worried family feared he had twisted his ankle and took him to the hospital.
Medical staffed scheduled an X-ray for the boy the following day – but it was too late.
