Forget Doomsday, Watch Out for SnakesVenomous snake bites have struck more people in 2012 than average. Poison control center officials blame the mild winter and early spring.“This year is a banner year for snakebites in California for sure and probably similarly across the country where there has been a warm winter and early spring,” Stuart Heard, executive director of the California poison control system, told USAToday. keep reading Image: The northern copperhead Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen (Centers for Disease Control, Wikimedia Commons)

Forget Doomsday, Watch Out for Snakes

Venomous snake bites have struck more people in 2012 than average. Poison control center officials blame the mild winter and early spring.

“This year is a banner year for snakebites in California for sure and probably similarly across the country where there has been a warm winter and early spring,” Stuart Heard, executive director of the California poison control system, told USAToday.

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Image: The northern copperhead Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen (Centers for Disease Control, Wikimedia Commons)

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    Snake-ocalypse?
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  17. ucsdhealthsciences said: We’ve had our Poison Conrtol doc on TV a few times already about this very thing. What many people don’t know is that insurance doesn’t always cover anti-venom. :/
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