you wrote,
"Coral snake envenomations may show no signs up until your organs start to fail"
coral snakes being primarly neurotoxic, causes death from respiratory shut down.
The lungs dont die the diaphrams nerve is blocked with the venom.
coral venom seldom leaves a mark.

multiple organ failure is mostly from viper bites


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Bud

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