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The venom of pit vipers is a “hemotoxic venom which serves to break down and destroy blood cells and other tissues and lowers the ability of the blood to coagulate or clot, thus resulting in hemorrhage throughout any portion of the circulatory sytem penetrated by the poison." (Snakes of Virginia, Donald W. Linzey and Michael J. Clifford, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1981.)
“The worst trouble
I had was afterwards
because the wound
never really healed. ” Chris Bird Dr. Schenck said that the recuperation time varies from victim to victim. “It usually takes several days for the toxic effects to wear off and then a few more days to make sure that the toxic symptoms have ended,” he noted. “Then there can be complications afterwards requiring skin grafts or amputations in extreme cases when the wound area does not heal properly.” Lee Bird and his son Chris, both residents of Rappahannock, have been bitten by copperheads, and both experienced some complications after the bite’s toxic effects had worn off. Lee, who was bitten on the left side of his left hand on August 2 last year, experienced serious complications caused by serum sickness he developed from the antivenin he was given for the bite. He was bitten as he was weeding around a rock wall, and he never saw the snake although Chris did find and
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