Rattlesnake Bite Sends Man To Hospital
Woman Pushed Snake With Broom, Officials Say
POSTED: Tuesday, November 4, 2008
UPDATED: 9:47 am EST November 4,
2008
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- A Kissimmee man was hospitalized Monday night after being bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake that he was trying to remove from an apartment hallway.
The man, who has not been identified, spotted the snake around 7 p.m. in an outside hallway of the Arrow Ridge Apartments off Hoagland Boulevard near Osceola Square Mall.
Firefighters said the man was trying to remove the rattlesnake and had a woman use a broom to push it into his hand when the snake bit him.
The man received antinvenin treatments. His condition was not released.
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