A man in Texas
was given 26 rises of anti-venom after he was bitten by the severed head of a poisonous rattlesnake.
The victim’s wife, Jennifer
Sutcliffe, said that her husband decapitated the four-foot serpent with a
shovel while working in the garden at their home near Corpus Christi.
However, when he picked up
the remains to dispose of them, the head of the snake bit him, provoking immediate seizures.
The man was
rushed to hospital and treated with several doses of anti-venom CroFab.
A week
after the incident, the man is suffering from weakened kidney function but his
condition is said to be stable, according to KIII-TV.
Leslie Boyer, an anti-venom
doctor at the University of Arizona VIPER Institute, said that killing deadly
snakes – especially by cutting them – was a bad idea.
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Credit: Yahoo News, KIII TV
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