Girl's leg shrivels and turns BLACK after snake bite causes her leg to rot away

This horrific picture shows a young girl's leg that has shrivelled and turned completely black after being bitten by a snake.

The snake’s venom caused severe necrosis – the premature death of cells.

This caused the tissue in her leg to die, leaving it withered and rotten.

The 13-year-old girl, who is unidentified, was first treated by remedies from the indigenous culture she was from, according to a photograph posted on Instagram by the username 'juventudmedica'.

A month later she was eventually brought to Carcaras, Venezuela,for medical treatment.

One doctor, who has seen the photograph, told MailOnline the girl will need her leg amputated but is still likely to die from the snake venom.

Australian Red Cross nurse under observation for EBOLA at Cairns Hospital

Sue Ellen Kovack was nervous when set off to join the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone - a country swept by the deadly virus - last month.

Now there are fears the 57-year-old, from Cairns, is suffering from the illness she was helping to treat.

Ms Kovack is currently under observation for Ebola and has been quarantined at Cairns Hospital

Health authorities ordered her to hospital after she reported feeling a fever at 1pm AEST on Thursday.

She just returned to Australia on Tuesday after a month volunteering for the Red Cross in the West African nation.

But Ms Kovack's humanitarian efforts have been slammed by outspoken Federal MP Bob Katter. 

The member for Kennedy - whose electorate takes in the southern area of Cairns and the town's airport - said her volunteering pursuits had put the nation at risk. 

Mr Katter said it was 'unbelievable and incomprehensive' how a person could get into Australia from an Ebola-infected country.

'There cannot be any compromise with this,' Mr Katter said.

'If you want to go to one of these countries, however laudable your motivation, I am sorry but when you return to Australia, you must be quarantined for three weeks - not home quarantined.'

Red Cross Australia has confirmed one of their aid workers is under observation for the deadly virus.

'Our heartfelt thoughts are with the Red Cross aid worker and her family. We will do everything we can to support her at this difficult time,' the organisation's head of international program Peter Walton said in a statement to the Red Cross Australia Twitter page.