Jeff Probst on Survivor Contestant’s Poisonous Snake Bite

Survivor always has to deal with snakes in the grass.

But in season 49 , the snake in question wasn’t a shady contestant, but rather a very literal snake—a venomous sea krait—that bit contestant Jake Latimer while he was standing in the ocean’s shallows, forcing him to be medically evacuated during the Oct. 8 episode.

For longtime host Jeff Probst , it was a reminder of how real the game of Survivor really is.

“When something more severe, like a snake bite happens, our medical team is immediately involved,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Oct. 9. “The player has no say. Our biggest concern during production is the integrity of the game and safety of the players. In this case, the call to medical was immediate and the response was just as fast.”

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