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Man released after poisonous bite, which may have killed a child

By Dustin Lushing, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 7, 2008 4:18 PM CDT

(Newser) – A Florida man has been released from the hospital after being bitten in the hand by a poisonous pygmy rattlesnake while browsing in a Wal-Mart garden department, the Miami Herald reports. Though potentially deadly to a child or elderly person, the bite "wouldn't have... Read full story »

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