How poisonous is a Copperhead? Nothing like a Moccasin or Rattler I thought.
You are right. No one dies from a copperhead bite but I am sure it is no fun either.
“...How poisonous is a Copperhead? Nothing like a Moccasin or Rattler I thought....”
Just as bad as a rattler except you don’t get the rattle. It’s a neurotoxin venom.
Moccasins have endotoxin venom. I prefer NOT to be bitten by any of em, thank you.
Usually lots of swelling and pain in the extremity/bite area. A friend’s son got bite last year and stayed overnight in the hospital, side effects lasted a few weeks. A 2 year old got bite last year and was sick but recovered. And, a lady’s grandson got bite on the toe a couple of years ago when he went outside to talk on his cell phone to a friend privately. Needless to say, no more sandals for him in the yard!
My mom could smell them when they were close....really!! Poisonous snakes have what she called a musty chemical smell.
Bad enough. Grew up with all three around our home and farms. Had several encounter with mocs and coppers. I was always told the babies are just as poisonous. We always had a hoe handy. Off with their heads! And, yes, they can still bite after that. Daddy had a gun handy for the rattlers.
I had a friend bitten by one in the seventies . He spent 5 days in the hospital .
One thing I know for sure is that the venom eats away at the area that receives the bite. I got bit by a baby copper head and within an hour there was a big hole in my little finger where the venom had eaten away the skin. The real pain was the bill. $60,600.00. The 600.00 was for the room they kept me in to observe my condition. 60,000 was for two shots of anti-venom.
Definitely toxic. They tend to be a good bit smaller than cottonmouths or rattlers, at least around here, hence less venom but nothing to take lightly.
They are sneaky snakes since they just slither in and eat
& drink out of the dog’s bowls. - One got up on our porch
last year. Dub barked & barked. I looked out without a
flashlight. It was coiled up and looked like a bunny rabbit.
Fang went out and shot him or something. Rattlers will sing,
but other snakes won’t.
Very poisonous
My wife got bitten by one several years ago on the heel. It was an adult snake so the bite was mostly dry. Young ones tend to inject everything they have. It looked like a bad mesquite thorns wounds with minimal swelling.
She spent about 18 hrs in the ICU and the bill was $40K with little actual treatment. Of course there was several doctors that came by and said “ I’ve never seen a snake bite before.
I wish I could get paid that sort of money to take someone’s pulse and gawk at their predicament.