I have been bitten by Northern water snakes several times and have never experienced any noticeable anticoagulation. Looking back on those times, though, I have noticed that, most of the times that I have been bitten, my hand was wet because the snake was in the water when captured. The water dilutes what little blood comes out and makes it seem as if there is blood everywhere and that it just keeps coming. As herpetologist Roger Conant said years ago, it is no more serious that a prick from a rose thorn.

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