 Although this is not a spitting cobra, some individuals (mostly specimens from Guizhou Province) are capable of ejecting venom towards a threat within a distance of .In Taiwan there were 593 recorded cases of envenomation by the Chinese cobra from 1904 to 1938, of those 87 cases were fatal which is a 15% mortality rate.This is higher than mortality rates for "Naja naja" (the Indian cobra).