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Toxic?

NibiruZen Nov 17, 2003 01:40 AM

What's the news on the possible mild toxin on garter snakes? Any links?

Replies (4)

tomdickinson Nov 17, 2003 12:27 PM

Pretty much every colubrid known to man has deadly toxins in their saliva.Deadly to you?No.Not even to the prey they eat.If you let a garter chew on you hand for a while you will swell up.I have had this happen a couple of months ago.The snake was on me for about 5-10 min.Half of my hand went numb.It went away about 4 hours later.I know some venomous snake expert wrote a paper on it recently.He said rat snakes have the same toxins as most cobras.
Hope this helped a little bit
Tom

NibiruZen Nov 17, 2003 02:19 PM

Any idea where I can read the documentation?

tbone Nov 17, 2003 03:45 PM

Very interesting stuff on this site....
venomdoc.com-Bryan Grieg Fry's Site

NibiruZen Nov 18, 2003 09:07 AM

n/p

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