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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
In northern AZ we have the Green Mojave Rattlesnake, which is supposedly worse than a Coral Snake and also aggressive. Their venom consists of a hemo- and neurotoxin. Very bad news, especially since you're only likely to encounter one very far from any help.
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Wow... well, as they say, "you learn sumthin' every day." From the time I was 7 until I left home for college, I read just about everything I could find on snakes and kept some as pets, and I had never heard of that one... never knew we had another snake in the U.S. with a neurotoxic venom.
According to Wiki, they've got the antivenin situation covered pretty well...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_scutulatus