WASHINGTON — An 11-year-old boy in Australia died from a brown snake bite after his father assumed he had consumed alcohol and told him to “sleep it off,” according to a Coroners Court of Queensland Findings of Inquest report .

Tristian Frahm was found dead on Nov. 21, 2021, at a family bush property in Murgon, about 160 miles northwest of Brisbane. An autopsy revealed he died from “extensive internal bleeding” caused by brown snake envenomation.

According to the report, the condition, venom-induced consumption coagulopathy, can lead to a rare but deadly complication that prevents the blood from clotting.

Tristian had been celebrating his stepbrother’s birthday at the property with his father, Kerrod Frahm, and two other children when he fell off a ride-on lawn mower. At the time, Tri

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