Re: Fw: black widows & copperhead snakes (in great number in NCthis season)

**"* F* L* J* <l*@bellsouth.net>**

On 6/27/2012 12:20 PM, Tom wrote:

> My understanding about the deaths from copperhead bites is this: All of them
> were people who had already been bitten before, and had (no doubt, unknown
> to them) developed a potent allergy to copperhead venom. When they were
> bitten a second time, they went into allergenic anaphylactic shock and died.

Thanks for this new-to-me information. I will add this to the unverified 
fact that antivenin is used only once in a person's lifetime.

I heard from a local that one or more Canebrake Rattlesnakes have
been spotted in the Piedmont region of NC. Most people have assumed that 
this area was free of rattlesnakes.
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