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Article: Some black snakes are poisonous
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- Jerusalem Post
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- May 16, 1996
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JUDY SIEGEL
Jerusalem Post
05-16-1996
IF you mistakenly believe that black snakes aren't poisonous, you could get into trouble.
Hebrew University zoologist Prof. Yehudah Werner warned yesterday that there are at least two local varieties of black snakes in the southeastern Negev, Arava, and from the eastern hills of Judea and Samaria to the Gilboa whose bites are deadly.
Within just the past week, a soldier and a boy were bitten by black snakes and rushed to Hadassah-University Hospital on Mt. Scopus. Both survived.
Werner explained that the Atractaspis snake (known in Hebrew and ...