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But their venom is neurotoxic, the only neurotoxic snake in the US. So if they DO bite, it's no bueno. I am not sure what hospital in NC, if any, has antivenom. Mine doesn't.
But you are right in that they have to bite and chew to be effective, they are rare, they are shy, and they like to hide. I have never seen one in the wild, the only person I know who has seen them in the wild wrote "the" book about snakes in NC, and I certainly haven't heard of anyone being bit.
Doesn't the Mojave rattlesnake have a neurotoxic -hemotoxic venom?
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