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CINCINNATI -- Zookeepers helped police search for venomous and exotic pets in a house where a woman was fatally bitten by a viper. Alexandria Hall, 44, was bitten in her home Monday and died Saturday at University Hospital, police and a nursing supervisor said. Neighbors knew she had pets, including rabbits and birds, but were unaware of her collection of at least nine poisonous snakes and more than one dozen other snakes, lizards and alligators until police went to the suburban North College Hill house. Police believe an urutu pit viper bit the woman on Monday, and neighbors said she...

Man: Wal-Mart should pay medical bills after snake bite 01:12 PM CDT on Wednesday, October 1, 2003Associated Press BROWNWOOD, Texas – A man who claims he was bitten by a rattlesnake in a Wal-Mart says he wants the store to pay his medical bills but does not plan to seek more money. Douglas Hatchett, 31, a self-employed carpenter and painter who lives in Bangs, went to Wal-Mart in nearby Brownwood on Monday. He said he reached for a pair of shoes in a box on a shelf when the Western diamondback rattler, estimated at 14-16 inches long, bit him in...

“Ojha”, the village sorcerer, pronounced him as dying following a vicious bite of a venomous snake and a grief-stricken Alorani Devi had set her 12-year-old son Shankar afloat on a banana raft in the Ichamati river, hoping a divine hand alone could do a miracle and revive her “dead” son by removing the deadly snake's poison from his body. It was sheer providence of a different kind; 15 years down the line, Shankar who not only survived the venomous bite and was rescued by a generous old man from the river after being afloat for more than 240 kms, had...