[meteorite-list] Mojave Green Jeans - Images of a Killer Snake

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:32:41 -0500
Message-ID: <20101116213241.2TNXJ.108124.imail_at_fed1rmwml40>

One of my tenants attempted to save the life of a Mohave by using a piece of cardboard to push him off of the road. In doing so the snake bit him on the hand. After a four day stay in the hospital I went to see him . He unwrapped the bandages and it looked like someone had soaked his hand in acid. His skin was still raw and incidentally, he did nearly die. To this day his hand has scares like a burn victim.
As a side note. I grew up in Arizona and have been camping since I was a boy scout. To this day he is the only person I know that has ever been bitten and it clearly was his own fault. These snake bites do happen but, are relatively rare. Ask yourself. How many people do you know that has actually been bitten? People are not there prey. They try to avoid people the same as we try to avoid them. Although I hear a certain deadly snake in Australia is actually known to attack people?
Be smart. Don't stick your hands into invisible spaces and never try to rescue a snake from the roadway. As leno would say. "what did you think was going to happen".
Carl.

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Carl or Debbie Esparza
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---- "Rose wrote: 
> I would have to believe that the quoted cost is not for the antivenin treatment alone. The victim of such a snake bite would probably need to be admitted to an Intensive Care Unit with significant hemodynamic and possible respiratory support, not a cheap proposition.
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> David
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> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Pitt
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 7:49 PM
> To: Adam Hupe
> Cc: Adam
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mojave Green Jeans - Images of a Killer Snake
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> Whoa.
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> Adam, I know you're only relating what you've been informed, but something needs to be said of the nurse's outrageous ignorance.
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> The notion that aliens don't have insurance and U.S. citizens all carry insurance has hardly been the case.  A significant fraction of the citizenry of Nevada and Arizona (and not just) have not been carrying health insurance.  
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> Moreover, citizens are not dying as a result of aliens using up antivenin stocks.  The high cost of antivenin has to do with profit---not aliens.  It has been extensively written about that antivenin does not generate sufficient profit for drug companies so the prices get hiked up to the Moon.  And then no one buys it to keep on hand so there are shortages. 
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> All best / Darryl
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> On Nov 16, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Adam Hupe wrote:
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> > I was told by a local nurse that the average cost to treat a Mojave Green snake 
> > bite is between $60,000.00 and $70,000.00.  I asked why so expensive?  She 
> > claimed that illegal aliens, working mostly out-of-doors with no insurance are 
> > mainly to blame. None have insurance and the anti-venom is difficult to keep on 
> > hand.  She claimed that many U.S. citizens with insurance have died because they 
> > could not get access to it in time, partly because it was used on somebody else 
> > without insurance.  This in part is why the treatment is so expensive.  Only a 
> > few are able to afford it.  You better make sure your health insurance covers 
> > such things.
> > 
> > Be Careful and Happy Hunting,
> > 
> > Adam
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