Severed Rattlesnake Head Bites Texas Man, Leaving Him Needing 26 Doses Of Anti-venom
A man in Texas needed 26 doses of anti-venom after being bitten by the severed head of a four-foot rattlesnake.
Jennifer Sutcliffe, from Corpus Christi, told KIII TV that her husband had been clearing the yard on Memorial Day weekend when he saw and decapitated a rattlesnake.
But as the man, whose name was not given, picked up the snake to get rid of it, the head bit him and released an almost fatal amount of venom.
“Since there is no body, it released all its venom into him at that point, so he had a lot of venom,” Sutcliffe told the station, explaining she had driven her husband to hospital following the bite.
A rattlesnake pictured in Alberta. In a separate incident a man was bitten by the severed head of a rattlesnake. Reuters
“They HALO-Flighted him into the hospital," Sutcliffe said, explaining she could not get to the emergency room quickly enough so met with an ambulance en-route. “A normal person who is going to get bit is going to get two to four doses of antivenom. He had to have 26 doses."
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