In recent years, doctors in central North Carolina have noticed a troubling pattern: more patients are arriving in emergency rooms with snake bites. Some hospitals surpassed last year’s totals before ...

A University of Florida study found that snake bites in the state are an understudied but avoidable risk. Most venomous snake bites in Florida occurred when people, primarily men, intentionally ...

Picture the classic movie scene: A lonesome cowboy is riding through the desert when suddenly a rattlesnake spooks his horse; he tumbles into the dust, and as it gallops away into the distance, he ...