07-03-2012, 11:09 AM
CARTER COUNTY, MO (KFVS) -
A man has died after he was bitten by a Copperhead snake in Carter County.
Carter County Sheriff Bruce Van Belle says the East Carter ambulance picked up the man somewhere along the Current River. As they were driving, Van Belle says the man had trouble breathing.
The ambulance crew took the man to their facility in Ellisnore and stabilized him.
He was taken to a hospital where he later died.
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no details yet, his general health, age, etc.
“There are only two reported deaths from snakes on record in Missouri that we could find,” Briggler said this morning. “One was in 1933 from a timber rattlesnake bite, and there is a death certificate from 1965 on record for a man in the Kansas City area who died from a copperhead bite.”
A man has died after he was bitten by a Copperhead snake in Carter County.
Carter County Sheriff Bruce Van Belle says the East Carter ambulance picked up the man somewhere along the Current River. As they were driving, Van Belle says the man had trouble breathing.
The ambulance crew took the man to their facility in Ellisnore and stabilized him.
He was taken to a hospital where he later died.
no details yet, his general health, age, etc.
“There are only two reported deaths from snakes on record in Missouri that we could find,” Briggler said this morning. “One was in 1933 from a timber rattlesnake bite, and there is a death certificate from 1965 on record for a man in the Kansas City area who died from a copperhead bite.”