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Most (77.8%) of the snakebites occurred in adult men while they were handling wild snakes, and most of the bites were perpetrated by the diminutive pygmy rattlesnake and the cottonmouth.

“But a snake like this can still bite and still inject venom. And there have been several instances where people have been envenomated and ended up incredibly sick from a snake in this position.