The Texas resident was bitten by severed snake head. He barely survived
Even a poisonous snake with its head cut off may pose a threat to the life, seen recently in my own experience a resident of Texas.
About this unusual incident to journalists said the wife of the victim, Jennifer Sutcliffe.
According to her, the husband of Jennifer (his name is not known) may 27, digging in the garden, came across a rattlesnake with a length of over a meter.
Without hesitation, he took the shovel and chopped off the head reptile, according to local television station KIII-TV.
When the man stooped to throw the remains of the snake’s severed head bit him. And released the head remained all the poison in it, not a small portion, as would be the case of a normal bite.
As Jennifer says Sutcliffe, her husband immediately felt sick, lost his sight, he began bleeding internally.
Usually, says the wife of the victim, the patient required one or two antidotes, but the man took 26 doses of medicine.
In the first day after being bitten, the doctors doubted that he would survive, but now the victim is in stable condition.
According to experts, dead venomous snakes kostelny reflex may be preserved almost to the hour, even if her head is severed from the body.