In recent years, doctors in central North Carolina have noticed a troubling pattern: more patients are arriving in emergency rooms with snake bites. Some hospitals surpassed last year’s totals before ...
A North Carolina family said their 4-year-old was bitten by a venomous snake on the playground of a day care, but staff failed to call emergency services and reached out to a guardian instead. The boy ...
A University of Florida study found that snake bites in the state are an understudied but avoidable risk. Most venomous snake bites in Florida occurred when people, primarily men, intentionally ...