Snakebite death only state's 2nd from copperhead

Jul 05, 2012 -- 9:42am

Conservation officials say a

southeast Missouri man who died after being bitten by a snake

last weekend is only the state's second fatality resulting from a

copperhead bite.

Fifty-year-old Terry Brown of Ellsinore died Sunday in

Poplar Bluff after being bitten on the thumb by the snake in his

family's tent along the Current River. The Springfield

News-Leader (http://sgfnow.co/L0qkVf) reports Brown was trying to

get the snake out of the tent Saturday when he was bitten, and

was unconscious within 15 minutes.

Missouri Department of Conservation herpetologist says a

death in the Kansas City area in 1965 is the only other time a

person died in Missouri from a copperhead bite. The only other

death resulting from a venomous snakebite was attributed to a

timber rattlesnake.

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