Copperhead, Big Cedar Mtn, GA

Good picture. Hope you used the zoom feature to get take it!

WOW! IS THAT A FAT ONE! I SEE MORE COPPERHEAD THAN ANY OTHER SNAKE OUT THERE! HOW DID YOU GET SO CLOSE WITHOUT DISTURBING IT? NOTORIOUS FOR ITS MEANNESS!

By cracky....it's a beauty!!...Steve the Crocodile Hunter

Nice photo...10+

yikes

Re: Copperhead, Big Cedar Mtn, GA
Can it kill you? Is it poinsonous??

Re: Copperhead, Big Cedar Mtn, GA
Posted on Gorp.com, attributed to the Professional Services department of Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories:

The copperhead has probably the mildest venom of any poisonous snake in the U.S. Adults bitten by a single copperhead usually need only supportive therapy and good cleansing and disinfection of the wound. A study of 400 victims of copperhead bites found only two deaths, both the result of simultaneous bites by three or more snakes. About 3,000 bites a year are inflicted by copperheads. You would probably want to treat a copperhead bite pretty much as any other pit viper bite, but would be able to reassure the patient a bit more and would not be as concerned if medical help were not readily available. This not to say that a copperhead bite won't hurt, it will. These bites are still serious but are unlikely to be life threatening. Gold and Wingert state that "It [antivenin] is unnecessary in most cases of copperhead bite and pygmy rattlesnake bites.

Re: Copperhead, Big Cedar Mtn, GA
Why would I want to kill one of God's creatures?

RainMan

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