What a coincidence! I was just going to post my experience from yesterday & noticed this thread.

I was cleaning out dirty snake water bowls in my sink yesterday & when I finished the screen covering the drain was clogged with cypress & pine shavings & snake sh!t - I reached into this mess, with my hand, to clear it so it could drain, & it felt like my finger had caught on a piece of cypress mulch; anyways, I pulled back & felt a stab as it stuck into my finger - I thought,"Oh, crap"! & looked at my finger & there sticking out of it, more than halfway imbedded was a more than 1/2" C.atrox fang!

I wasn't too worried about envenomation, as it had passed through the snake's digestive system & had been sitting in the water bowl, but I was, & am, worried about what kind of infection I might get from injecting who knows what kind of nasty pathogens that deeply into my finger!

It bled alot & I washed it with Betadine, but my finger is noticibly swollen, stiff, & it hurts - I'll be following up with a tetanus shot on Monday &, if it isn't feeling & looking better, I'll probably take a course of antibiotics.

Cheers!

Max
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"I got out of the business because it's almost impossible to do business without breaking a law some place, whether you knowingly do it or not."

Tom Crutchfield

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