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Article: Surviving the snake pit. (treating snake bites) (Column)
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- Outdoor Life
- Article date:
- August 1, 1992
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Do you know who is slinking around your favorite hunting or fishing grounds?
A few years ago, a fisherman in Louisiana got the shock of his life when he went to retrieve a stringer from the mouth of a black bass he had caught. When he slipped his fingers into the fish's mouth, he was bitten by a water moccasin that the fish had swallowed tail-first. After returning from a few days in the hospital, the angler mounted both fish and snake on a plaque.
Finding a snake inside a fish may be a rare event, but snakebites are not. Each year snakes bite about 45,000 people in the United States; approximately 8,000 of these bites are by venomous snakes, and 12 ...