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Interesting. Posted by Dr Greene on faceplant

"A few people have privately asked me if there’s been any fatalities from eastern coral snakes, because I mentioned in a different post that there are no documented human fatalities from Texas coral snake envenomations.

A few of us just published this article in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. We looked at all fatalities following native snakebites in the United States between 1989 and 2018. We identified one death from an eastern coral snake. 2006. The victim did not seek medical attention.

The species could be identified in the majority of cases. When species identification was available, it was the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, that was responsible for the most deaths. 22 victims. Many of whom did not seek treatment. They were five deaths attributed to copperheads. Two attributed to cottonmouths. Five attributed to eastern diamondback rattlesnakes. If memory serves, I think they were four deaths from western Diamondbacks and four from Prairie rattlesnakes."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735675720307774?fbclid=IwAR3jC2VtnbEds6iIvSDsSjo j49pRWZ400TjpwM9pr0s84OtQc6yBLdcbxwc