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re: Snake ID
Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:41 am to Walt OReilly
Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:41 am to Walt OReilly
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beautiful snake
It was amazingly glossy, like it just shed. Almost looked like a toy, the pattern was so odd for nature.
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Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:48 am to Mung
Yep that's a coral snake, I found a few of them way back when over off of Memorial and Hwy 6 when I was surveying for the Marywood development, pretty snakes
Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:53 am to Mung
I'd love to see one. Never have though.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:58 am to tysonslefthook
Anti venom still available. I think a pharmaceutical company looked into developing a synthetic type but the amount of snakebites didn't outweigh the costly development.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 7:58 am to Mung
Kincaid is absolutely full of Copperheads is what a biologist out there told me, he didn't say anything about coral snakes!
Posted on 4/27/15 at 8:02 am to Walt OReilly
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Beautiful snake
NO SUCH THING
Posted on 4/27/15 at 8:11 am to Mung
So cool.....Went walking through the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge yesterday with my son. At one point I told him, "You know what would be cool, to find a Coral snake." We only found a four foot Rat snake.
Beautiful creature indeed.
Beautiful creature indeed.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 8:41 am to Mung
Cannot believe you didn't pick it up.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 8:47 am to AlxTgr
i ran off the find a stick and it disappeared into the leaf litter. greenbriar thicket cut me a bit before i quit looking. probably for the best. 
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:12 am to Mung
That's awesome. Like most in this thread, never came across one.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:35 am to glassman
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Not true. They are an elapide, meaning they don't have retractable fangs, just fixed. They are small fangs, but not rear fanged like a boomslang.
I always thought/read they had fangs in the rear of their mouths. When googling, the eastern coral has fangs in the front. When googling coral snakes in general (many species of coral snakes), some say they are rear fanged. Now I'm confused.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:47 am to Mung
encountered this guy this past weekend
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:51 am to jorconalx
Mr. Cotton
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:54 am to AlxTgr
My bride was in the boat with me, I got to drop some knowledge on her on how I knew it was a cottonmouth
Posted on 4/27/15 at 10:07 am to webstew
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Nope still available and FDA approved.
For about 3 more days...
I'm not sure if they went back and manufactured another lot or where this antivenin was sourced. When Pfizer announced they would cease the manufacture by Wyeth, the original lot expiration was in 2012. In fact, all of the last lot was supposed to have expired on Halloween of 2012 (and that was an extended, extended date). The US was investigating approval of Coralmyn antivenin from Mexico. Perhaps bureaucracy got in the way and forced the manufacture of another lot. Reports on any given year are 4-6 bites with only 1-2 deaths.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 10:09 am to Elephino
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antivenin
Posted on 4/27/15 at 10:27 am to Elephino
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I'm not sure if they went back and manufactured another lot or where this antivenin was sourced. When Pfizer announced they would cease the manufacture by Wyeth, the original lot expiration was in 2012. In fact, all of the last lot was supposed to have expired on Halloween of 2012 (and that was an extended, extended date). The US was investigating approval of Coralmyn antivenin from Mexico. Perhaps bureaucracy got in the way and forced the manufacture of another lot. Reports on any given year are 4-6 bites with only 1-2 deaths.
I mentioned it because I tried to buy some awhile back but it was too expensive for such a little risk. I was informed that it may even not be produced anymore (2-3 years ago). I carry polyvalent bothops antivenin in a mixing form. It's supposed to work for fer de lance and most other snakes in the area I work in. If a coral or bushmaster gets me, it's game over.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 11:52 am to boom roasted
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Well that's scary.
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"There is usually only mild pain associated with a bite, but respiratory failure can occur within hours."
That's even worse, doesn't hurt that bad then all of a sudden you can breath
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"The bite of a coral snake may soon be more dangerous, in part because bites are so uncommon. Production of coral snake antivenom in the United States ceased because it is not profitable"
-wiki
Posted on 4/27/15 at 1:45 pm to Elephino
I'm not sure either. The FDA article linked was last updated March 18, 2015. It would be really nice if someone still manufactured it in the US. I would not want to be one of the unlucky few who gets bitten. In the meantime, I would have to have an extremely compelling reason to handle one.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 1:59 pm to webstew
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I would have to have an extremely compelling reason to handle one.
You mean posting pics on the OB isn't compelling enough?!?!?!
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