Mark O'Shea is alive and well.

Joe Slowinski (Associate Curator of Herpetology California Academy of Sciences) died Sept. 12, 2001 as a result of a bite from a Krait in Mynamar. He is the most recent Herpetologist that I'm aware of to die from snakebite.
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Ralph Waldo Emerson