Posted on 08/05/2019 1:46:26 PM PDT by Bonemaker
RALEIGH, N.C.—Venomous snakebites are on the rise in the Sunbelt this summer, with North Carolina, Georgia and Texas on track to set records.
In North Carolina and Georgia, venomous snakebites have been rising for the past several years and are up more than 10% from a year ago, according to the states’ poison-control centers. In Texas, there were 415 reported snakebites in May and June, 27% more than the same period five years ago.
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global warming. it’s pissing off the snakes.
Then we MUST HAVE SNAKE CONTROL LAWS!..................
this is what happens when a leftist, tofu eating jackass goes into the boonies without any clue about wildlife.
We need government to ban venom.
More snakes, more snakebites.
More people, more snakebites.
More snakes and people, way more snakebites.
It’s that easy.
I feel sorry for the poor snake then.
venomous snakes obviously don’t have a pro-abortion movement . . . yet.
More people, more snakebites.
More snakes and people, way more snakebites.
More people who think snakes are like Disney animals...................
Or people simply go to a new part of the country where they don’t recognize the venomous snakes.
Mrs. Buckeye nearly got bitten by a copperhead once because they did not exist where she grew up and she hadn’t seen one before.
Though I think you’d know a rattlesnake just about anywhere.
Yeah, it was looking for meat and found a vegetable. LOL
Genesis 3:15
glad she’s okay, copperheads are bad news all around.
North Carolina leads the nation in snake bites.
Fortunately most of them are copperheads. They are bad but almost no one dies from them. Probably the most dangerous of them all is the Eastern Diamondback.
Those city slickers from up north moving down to the Carolinas are most at risk!!
In eastern Oregon, whiskey is considered a treatment for snakebite. In many bases, you will find a case of whiskey right next to the box of snakes.
I wonder if it works the same way in Baptist territory.
With the internet every hidden swimming hole and hiking destination that were once only known to locals are now common knowledge among the masses.
More people being outside equals more encounters with the nasties of nature.
Have to sign in to read the article...I knew there was a reason I never clicked on WSJ articles...
I wonder if it has anything to do with the rains this year running them out of their normal territory and into peoples’ yards? Out here I see copperheads every year, and a cottonmouth now and then (nasty bastards and probably the most aggressive) plus plenty non venomous varieties. Spotted a 6 foot chicken snake a couple of weeks ago. Also common around here.
But with all the rains, their normal habitat could be flooded. I’ve seen that happen after tornadoes too, I always make sure I carry a pistol with me after a tornado hits, everything gets stirred up and pushed out of its normal living area.
Last year a hurricane flooded much of north carolina, flooding in Houston not long ago, (then again Houston floods easy, I’ve seen every underpass in town flood in a 2 inch rain), other places too. That always pushes these critters out of their normal areas. So I wonder how many of these are related to the excess water forcing them to find higher ground. Anywhere within a couple of hours of the Mississippi has had serious problems this year, I’m still seeing reports or crop failures or missed planting altogether from flooding earlier this year...i places it washed the topsoil away.
Hadn’t really thought of this till I read this thread, but any time you have flooding, they are forced to find higher ground, and then often they are in more common contact with humans.
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