104 Where There Is No Doctor 2011
SNAKEBITE
RATTLESNAKE—
North America.
Mexico, and
Central America
Note: Try to get information on the kinds of
snakes in your area and put it on this page.
When someone has been bitten by a snake, try to find out if the snake was
poisonous or harmless. Their bite marks are different:
POISONOUS
SNAKE
fang marks
The bite of most poisonous snakes
leaves marks of the 2 fangs (and sometimes, little
marks made by the other teeth).
NON-POISONOUS
SNAKE
The bite of a snake that is not
poisonous leaves only 2 rows of teeth marks, but
no fang marks.
People often believe that certain harmless snakes are poisonous. Try to find out
which of the snakes in your area are truly poisonous and which are not. Contrary to
popular opinion, boa constrictors and pythons are not poisonous. Please do not kill
non-poisonous snakes, because they do no harm. On the contrary, they kill mice and
other pests that do lots of damage. Some even kill poisonous snakes.