Cottonmouth bites MS boy on the face

Prayers to that little boy and his family. He will probably never go in a creek again.
Then to have to deal with this on top of his injury.

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But because of the costs of storing, preparing and administering the drug, Shands charges about $20,000 for one vial of CroFab. That "typical" snakebite Baines described could put a patient back about $160,000 before insurance, which offers variable coverage.

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Should be paid for by PETA and the World Wildlife Federation.

Antivenom ain't cheap

Same thing happened to my neighbor years ago

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We should find those people and get them to start a fund to help with the bills. I would help out.

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I think there's a GoFundMe refined in the article, but there's no link.

When you put it like that....something ain't right

I got bit by one of those nasty bastards on the elbow when I was in high school. They didn't give me the anti venom, just filled me full of antibiotics. It's insane how fat my arm got. Prayers for this poor kid, he's going to go thru some misery.

You know, nobody likes rattlesnakes, but we ought to respect them. They generally give you a warning if they know what's up. Most folks who get bit either step on a sleeping/resting one (nobody's fault) or are fricking with it (human's fault).

But frick cottonmouths. They're are silent, they blend in and are highly aggressive in low lying areas or in the water. Prayers sent.

I say again, frick cottonmouths.

Prayers for the kid

We had a guy get bit by a rattlesnake this past deer season in south Texas at our company lease and they said the treatment was gonna run around $200,000.

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costs of storing, preparing and administering the drug, Shands charges about $20,000 for one vial of CroFab.

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storing preparing and administering? Can't be much more than a refrigerator, a syringe, and shaking the damn vial if they have antivenin in remote Africa and South America. What a sham, 20k is probably with a 19.5k profit

I've ruined quite a few deer hunts back in the day when I came across cottonmouths while walking to my stand. Blew them away every time. Turned around & went home.