NC Rattler Bite

A Gaston County, NC, man was bitten by a rattlesnake in a friend's collection. (News source.)

Rattlesnakes vs Denim

A new study shows that denim clothing often reduces the amount of venom released by a rattlesnake during a bite. (Abstract; via Zach Barton)

Catlina Island Rattlers

Researchers are investigating whether the rattlesnakes on Santa Catalina Island may be a different subspecies from their California mainland kin. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite Leads to Mounting Bills

An under-insured Minnesota man was bitten by a rattlesnake in his car, which has brought on mounting hospital bills. (News source.)

Snakebites

A Volusian County, FL, man was bitten by a cottonmouth while working at a landfill. (News source.)

Two Pasco County, FL, men were bitten by rattlesnakes. (News source.)

Double Whammy

A Florida man appears to have been bitten by a coral snake and a pygmy rattler at the same time. (News source.)

Reptile Attacks

A 68-year old Georgia man died from a rattlesnake bite sustained while hunting. (News source.)

A 16-year old boy was killed by a crocodile in the lower Zambezi river. (News source.)

A Melbourne, Australia, boy survived a brown snake bite. (News source.)

7+ Foot Rattlesnake?

At least it's not an email hoax this time around, but a St. Augustine, FL, claims the eastern diamondback he had to kill was 7 foot, 3 inches. (News source.)

Herp Attacks

An Alabama farmer was apparently killed by a rattlesnake bite to the neck. (News source.)

A Florida woman narrowly escaped an alligator attack. (News source.)

SC Rattler Bite

Trying to retrieve a dove in the weeds, a South Carolina man was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite on National Parkland

A Wyoming prairie rattler bite, here.

Pygmy Rattler Bite

A Florida woman was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake, but fortunately it was a dry bite. (News source.)

Bites

A Kansas man was bitten by a rattler near Lake Cheney. (News source.)

A man was bitten by a copperhead in a South Carolina Wal-Mart's garden center. (News source.)

Snakes and Snakebites

A Florida man was saved by quick antivenom response when he was apparently bitten by a green mamba. The snake's wherabouts are unknown, and where it came from is a mystery. (News source.)

A older snake story here, of a military training exercise that runs into a rattlesnake.

Details on the recovery of a Texas girl from a rattlesnake bite. (News source.)

Three Australians were bitten by the same snake of unknown species. (News source.)

A Trinidad woman died from a fer-de-lance bite when she didn't get antivenom in time. (News source.)

Rattlesnake News

A pair of conjoined rattlesnakes were found in Tucson, and scheduled for surgery. (News source.)

A Florida woman shelled out double for human antivenom for her three dogs after they were bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. (News source.)

An Ontario hospital is stocking up on massasauga antivenom. (News source.)

A Missouri toddler was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. (News source.)

A British Columbia teenager was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

An 87-year old Florida woman was bitten by a pygmy rattler, then strangled it with her bare hands. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite in Arizona (Pics)

Some interesting images of a rattlesnake bite to the ankle, here.

Another Sistrurus Bite

A Florida man was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake in his driveway. (News source.)

Massasauga Bite

An Ontario woman was bitten by an eastern massasauga. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bites

A Florida man was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake while shopping in a Wal-Mart garden department. He plans to sue. (News source.) Now seriously, what idiot living in rattlesnake country seriously believes that it's a garden center's fault if he doesn't watch where he puts his hands? Snakes can be anywhere, there's no way to effectively prevent them, so common sense has to be applied.

Another man in Florida was driving through the Everglades when he stopped to rescue an eastern diamondback from the road, and ended up getting bit. (News source.)

Eastern Massasauga Bite

Details on a massasauga bite in Michigan, here.

Massachusetts Rattlesnake Bite

An unnamed researcher was bitten by a timber rattlesnake in the field, near Sheffield, MA. (News source.)

Snake Bites

A Connecticut man was bitten by a rattlesnake when he tried to pick it up. (News source.)

An Idaho woman was bitten by a small rattlesnake. (News source.)

A Florida man was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. (News source.)

Sri Lanka recorded approx. 33000 snakebites in 2008. (News source.)

Rattler Bites

Three people in Florida have been bitten by rattlesnakes in the last week. (News source.)

Snake Bites

A Green Bay, Wisconsin, teen was bitten by a captive rattlesnake. It and several other illegally kept venomous snakes were confiscated. (News source.)

A Louisiana firefighter was bitten by a cottonmouth. (News source.)

Snakes A'Biting

An Alabama man was bitten by a cottonmouth. (News source.)

In Wilson County, Texas, a man was bitten by a coral snake, and a girl was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

A Utah girl went through a traumatic time with a rattlesnake bite. (News source.)

Latest Snake Bites

An Oklahoma man was in serious pain after a small snake bit him. (News source.)

A Florida girl was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. (News source.)

Oddities Here and There

"Tens of thousands" of newly hatched western toads have taken over Marysville, California. (News source.)

A family in the Bronx found a yellow rat snake in their home. (News source.)

Not so much odd as sad, a canebrake ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. (News source.)

Snake Bites

A Utah girl was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

A Maryland man was bitten by a probable copperhead (and the snake lived to tell about it). (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite (Montana)

A schoolgirl was bitten by a young rattlesnake. (News source.)

When Herps Attack

A toddler in California was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

A 16-year old Florida boy was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake, and a schoolgirl was bitten by a water moccasin. (News source.)

Snakebites have increased by 75% in North Carolina this year. (News source.)

The latest gator attack victim has a new challenge now: mounting hospital bills, as he is uninsured. (News source.)

Snakebites

A teenager was bitten by a baby rattlesnakes in Palouse Falls State Park, Washington. (News source.)

A Tennessee girl was apparently bitten by a venomous snake. (News source.) Seems to be a little confusion over the account, though.

A UK man was nipped by an adder. (News source.)

A snake-catcher in India was killed by a cobra. (News source.)

Venomous Snakes and Snakebite News

A bushmaster and other venomous snakes were allegedly dumped in the woods near Haskell Indian Nations University, and are being hunted. (News source.) [Almost sounds like an animal-rights ploy, like the "cobra sightings" in South Carolina last year, except there are apparently actual sightings, assuming the identifications are correct. I'm not sure why someone would dump a bushmaster -- they're not inexpensive, and it wouldn't be hard to find a new home for one.]

An alleged snakebite death in a US soldier at a training camp is being reevaluated. (News source.)

A young California girl was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

A Wyoming man tried to suck the venom out of a rattlesnake bite on his dog's nose and ended up sick himself. (News source.)

A Swaziland cobra bite victim is being sent to the US for skin grafts. (News source.)

Snake Bite Roundup

A man in Spain was bitten by his pet rattlesnake. (News source.)

An Arizona snake-remover was bitten by a small rattlesnake. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite

A Southern California man was bitten by a rattlesnake while in a cemetery, trying to shoo it away from his family. He is "fighting for his life," according to his wife. (News source.)

Herp Attacks

A man in India escaped attack from a 12-foot python. (News source.)

No, you should try to pet a rattlesnake. (News source.)

Crocodiles have killed 9 children recently in Angola. (News source.)

Massasaugas Removed

Officials are removing massasaugas from a Chicago wetland and putting them in a zoo breeding program. (News source.)

Snake Venom News

An article on the Global Snakebite Initiative, here.

And, the southern Pacific rattlesnake may be becoming more toxic. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite

A 26-year old biologist in California was bitten by a Southern Pacific rattlesnake near Corona. He was flown to Loma Linda University Hospital. (News source.)

Multi-State Herp Bust

Canada and NY are pushing the p.r. on a recent illegal reptile trade bust; other state's efforts (like Pennsylvania) will probably follow soon. Aspects include smuggling massasaugas across the Canadian border, selling eastern box turtles online, and selling wild-collected snapping turtles from New York to a turtle farm in Louisiana where they were shipped to Asia mixed in with legally farmed turtles. But, of course, the publicity will focus on the "unnatural" aspects of keeping reptiles in general, the "lucrative" and implied widespread business of poaching native species, etc., rather than the very small number of people involved when considering the reptile hobby as a whole.

Details here, here, and here.

Herp Crimes

Three Florida teenagers were charged with poaching alligators. (News source.)

Gassing dens for rattlesnakes is now outlawed in Alabama. (News source.)

A gang of Indian venom smugglers was caught with king cobra venom. (News source.)

Minnesota Rattler Conservation

MN DNR is cutting back cedar growth on bluffs to give rattlesnakes more sunning areas closer to their dens. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Behavior

Interesting "cannibalism" behavior in post-birthing Crotalus polystictus. (News source.)

Rattler Bite Lawsuit

A man bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake at a Florida Wal-Mart garden center last summer is suing the company for negligence. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite

A Hillsborough County, FL, Verizon worker was bitten by a 4-foot rattlesnake. (News source.)

Free Poster

Details on getting the Rattlesnakes of Arizona poster here.

Pygmy Rattler Bite

An interesting letter to the editor from a Florida parent documenting the events of his son's bite by a pygmy rattlesnake here.

Snakebites: Neglected "Tropical Disease"

A Florida man was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake. (News source.)

Three snakebites here from Australia.

A copperhead bit a young Texas boy. (News source.)

A young Australian teenager survived a tiger snake bite, when it fortunately didn't envenomate. (News source.)

A new report calls snakebites a "neglected tropical disease," which kills up to 94,000 victims a year. (News source.)

Strange Snake Stories

A live 4 1/2 foot albino corn snake ended up in a Washington waste water plant. (News source.)

A goat thief in Malaysia turned out to be a 6-meter long python. (News source.)

It's time for the annual Rattlesnake Festival in Pasco County, Texas. (News source.)

Controversy in Illinois: did a man see a massasauga or a fox snake? (News source.)

Has the largest fossil snake been found? Estimates of a South American fossil are up to 12.8 meters. (News source.)

Rattlesnake in the Mailbox

A Florida postman was bitten by an eastern diamondback that somehow ended up in a mailbox. He didn't call 911 until he finished his deliveries. (News source.)

Snakes on the Attack

A python attacked a woman who runs a German reptile zoo, during a cage-cleaning. (News source.)

A snake (apparently a nonvenomous native species) bit two people at a Maryland renaissance fair, when a young woman tried to taunt her boyfriend with it. (News source.)

A Sydney, Australia, man was bitten on the finger by a brown snake. (News source.)

A Colorado Sheriff's deputy was bitten by a rattlesnake when he tried to move it, and had a severe reaction. Before help arrived, he also ended up crashing his car. (News source.)

And for non-attacking snake news, a man survived 113 days in an enclosure with 40 venomous snakes without being bitten, a Guinness world record. (News source.)

Snakes Stories

A python apparently killed a 15-year old Uganda boy. (News source.)

A farmer in Georgia ran over a rattlesnake with his tractor to try and kill it, but only ticked it off. He ended up getting bit. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Rumors

Another round of tall tales is sweeping through a Virginia community. Southampton County residents are afraid that wildlife officials have released a bunch of rattlesnakes via helicopter... (News source.)

The same rumors of secretive predator introductions have been spread (whether of rattlesnakes, mountain lions, or coyotes) throughout North America, and even in other parts of the world ("viper introductions" in France, etc.).

Snakes in the News

An Indian boy was bitten by a venomous snake, but immediately killed it with a rock and took it to a teacher. The boy is in good condition; he said he watches the Discovery Channel every night and isn't afraid of snakes. (News source.)

Massasauga habitat is being investigated in Pennsylvania. (News source.)

A Chinese woman fell into a well, and was rescued, but encountered a 2 meter long snake. (News source.)

Details here on a California rattlesnake bite.

A six-foot 2-inch eastern diamondback was killed in Florida. (News source.)

Rattler Bite

Details on a rattlesnake bite in New Mexico here.

Rattler Bite Story

A review and update on a Florida teen's snakebite earlier this year here.

Rattler Bites

In Tucson, Arizona: "Through August and September, we expect to get more than one bite per day."

Snakebites

A Chinese man was bitten by a pet viper. (News source.)

A Florida man was bitten by his pet rattlesnake. (News source.)

Snakebites in the News

A 20-year old man in Colorado had to be airlifted off a mountain after a rattlesnake bite. (News source.)

A NC woman, previously thought to have died by snakebite, instead died from cirrhosis of the liver. (News source.)

Rattlesnake News

Wisconsin biologists are trying to restore the massasauga. (News source.)

And, a California columnist came across two male rattlers in a dominance display. (News source.)

Snakebites

A California landscaper was bitten by a rattlesnake while clearing brush. (News source.)

An Idaho woman was bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Dinner

A culinary tradition in South Carolina... (News source.)

Snake Bites in the News

An 11-year old child in Florida was apparently bitten by a cottonmouth. (News source.)

A 10-year old girl in the UK was bitten by an adder. (News source.)

And an article here on rattlesnake bites in California.

Dachshund vs Mojave Green

A rare survival? A miniature dachshund was successfully treated for a bite by a Mojave green rattlesnake. (News source.)

Rattlesnake News

A California girl was bitten on the toe by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

An Illinois wildlife center has bred ridge-nosed rattlesnakes. (News source.)

Dry Bite in California

A National Guard crewman in California received a dry bite from a rattlesnake. (News source.)

More Snake Bites

An 11-year old Texas girl was bitten by a copperhead. (News source.)

A 69-year old man (in or near New York) was bitten by a timber rattlesnake he kept as a pet. (News source.)

And, some details here on a California kingsnake found eating a rattlesnake.

Snake Bites

A Washington state man was bitten by a rattlesnake after picking it up, and carrying it around in a bag. (News source.)

A 3-year old girl suffered a dry bite by a pygmy rattlesnake in Florida. (News source.)

Pygmy Rattler Bite at Wal-Mart

A man was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake when he picked up a potted plant at a Florida Wal-Mart. (News source.)

Rattler Wrangler

An Arizona man who rescues rattlesnakes is profiled here.

Rattler Bites

A young teenage boy in Washington State was bitten by a rattlesnake while trying to handle it with a stick. (News source.)

And a column here that describes a rattlesnake bite with long-term medical difficulties...

California Field Herping

A California man wrote into a columnist to talk about his hobby: going out into the field, catching rattlesnakes, and collecting data (before releasing snakes unharmed). He's caught over 1275 rattlers over 16 years. (News source.)

Big Rattlesnake

A Florida woman found a 6-foot eastern diamondback in her back yard. (News source.) Nobody got bit, but there's a strange quote from a neighbor: "'It looks like someone let their snake go,' said Jonathan Papenfuss, Larson’s neighbor. 'But, I mean, if it was growing up around here, there is construction down the road so that's been stirring up some wildlife on the side where they're tearing the trees up. So if they're tearing up their nests, that's probably why it came over here.'" Apparently, people just don't know what's in their own backyards, and have to blame the pet industry.

Massasauga Hunter

Pennsylvania surveys for the eastern massasauga... (News source.)

More Snakebite News

A 3-year old California girl was bitten on the foot by a 9-inch long rattlesnake. (News source.)

An Inglewood, California, man was bitten by a rattlesnake when he picked it up, mistaking it for a nonvenomous species. (News source.)

A 15-year old Texas boy was bitten by a probably nonvenomous snake, but was sent to the hospital after complaining of discomfort from the bite. (News source.)

A Greenville, South Carolina, hospital has had 9 snake bites the past month, triple the usual number in a typical month. (News source.)

In Israel, a migrant worker was bitten by a snake near Tel Aviv, and other bites have been documented recently. (News source.)

More on Snakebites

An Australian man is stable after being bitten by a snake (unknown species.) (News source.)

The previously mentioned Orlando, Fl, snakebite was a resort employee bitten by an eastern diamondback as he attempted to move it from the grounds. (News source.)

Snake Bites

An individual staying at the Sheraton Vistana Village resort in Orlando, FL, was bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

And Thai police are scratching their heads over a strange cobra bite fatality...

Rattler Bite

A 5-year old Texas boy was bitten by a rattlesnake as he pushed a younger friend away from the snake. (News source.)

More Snakebites

No details given, but an Oklahoma hospital has treated their first snakebite of the season. (News source.)

A Virginia man was treated for a rattlesnake bite. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bites Getting Worse?

Five people have died from extreme symptoms in rattlesnake bites in Arizona since 2002, prompting toxicological investigation. (News source.)

Border Patrol Rattler Bite

A border patrol agent in the Huachuca Mountains (Arizona) was airlifted out after being bitten by a rattlesnake. (News source.)

Traffic Reporter Bitten

A California traffic reporter was bitten by a rattlesnake. No details given on how that happened... (News source.)

EDB Bite

A co-owner of the Edisto Island Serpentarium was bitten by an eastern diamondback while snake hunting on the Georgia coast. (News source.)

Massasauga Hunt

A road project in Butler County, PA, is being held up as the state is requiring a search for eastern massasaugas (a small rattlesnake). (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite

Here is an article on a runner who was bitten by a rattlesnake last year.

Rattler Bites Coach

A Virginia high school coach returned from a camp in South Carolina to find a canebrake rattlesnake in his luggage. He was bitten, but is in fair condition. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite

A 3-year old boy was bitten by a rattlesnake while running on a beach at San Luis Pass, Texas. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Problem

A Texas business owner has to regularly catch rattlesnakes that overrun his property. (News source.)

Rattler Expert

Here's a profile on Bruce Means, a rattlesnake biologist.

Resolution Passes in WV

The timber rattlesnake is now West Virginia's state reptile. Not that that means anything to the senator who states: "If I see one in the woods, I’ll blow its head off ... If I see one, he’s dead." (News source.)

WV Timber Status

The timber rattlesnake may become West Virginia's state reptile... (News source.)

Crotalus Horridus Fatality

A New Mexico snake breeder/educator (operator of SouthwestSerpentarium.com) died after being bitten on the thumb by a canebrake rattlesnake. (News source.)

Six-Foot Rattler Killed

A six-foot eastern diamondback rattlesnake was killed when it entered a Florida resident's backyard. (News source, includes picture of snake.) (Which gives opportunity to mention again, Boss Snakes: Stories and Sightings of Giant Snakes in North America...)

NY Massasaugas

A study on a colony of eastern massasauga rattlesnakes in New York, near Syracuse, shows that the population is stable. (News source.)

The Cost of a Snakebite

Here's an article discussing the costs for treatment of an elderly Canadian man who was bitten by a pygmy rattler while vacationing in Florida.

Rattler with Elapid-like Toxin Elements

Sequencing of the venom of a western massasauga brought a few interesting aspects to light. "A cocktail of recognized venom toxin sequences was detected in the library, but the venom also contained three-finger toxin-like transcripts, a family of poisons thought only to occur in another family of snakes (Elapidae). The team also spotted a novel toxin-like transcript generated by the fusion of two individual toxin genes..." (Eurekalert.)

Squirrels Scent with Rattlesnakes

California ground squirrels have another means of fooling their rattlesnake predators. They take rattlesnakes' shed skins, chew them and lick the scent on parts of their body. This helps fool any rattler who might investigate a sleeping squirrel's burrow. (News source.)

Louisiana Cookbook

Alligator and rattlesnake make it into a new cookbook, "After the Hunt," by Chef John Folse. (News source.)

Pygmy Rattler Bite

A 73-year old man was bitten on the foot by a pygmy rattlesnake while in the Everglades. He was airlifted to a hospital. (News source.)

Rattlesnake Bite

A pregnant woman in Texas was bitten by a rattlesnake. Doctors turned to the Gladys Porter Zoo for antivenom. (News source.)

Snakebite Lawsuit

The family of a woman who died from a rattlesnake bite (bitten during a "snake-handling" service) is suing the hospital, claiming the nurses made fun of the woman instead of saving her life. (News source.)